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<p n="1543"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo947">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1543-1">Alexander<lb></lb>
Bryson</rs>
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, of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo948">Bow Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ337">Labourer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1543-2">Thomas Pearce</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo949">Bow Street</rs>
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aforesaid taken before me this 16th.<lb></lb>
day of October 1788</p>
<p n="1544">Who being upon Oath Severally say And first<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1544-1">Alexander Bryson</rs>
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for himself says<lb></lb>
that this Evening about eight o'Clock when Persons<lb></lb>
were going up the two Shilling Gallery Stairs of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo950">Covent Garden</rs>
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Theatre in order to go in at half<lb></lb>
Price he saw a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1544-2">James Hubbard</rs>
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go up said Stairs in<lb></lb>
company with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1544-3">George Wakeman</rs>
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when this<lb></lb>
Informant from his suspicions of them called<lb></lb>
out to the People going up to take care of their<lb></lb>
Pockets That in a few Minutes he heard a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ338">Gentleman</rs>
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say upon the Stairs that his Pocket<lb></lb>
was Picked at which instant said Wakeman came<lb></lb>
rushing down Stairs when this Informant laid<lb></lb>
hold of him and secured him That a Cround then<lb></lb>
gathered round among which was said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1544-4">James<lb></lb>
Hubbard</rs>
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who thrust himself between this<lb></lb>
Informant and said Wakeman and said "Daina<lb></lb>
"You You have no business with him" at<lb></lb>
which instant said Wakeman ran away<lb></lb>
after which this Informant secured said Hubbard<lb></lb>
and further says that previous to said Hubbards<lb></lb>
and Wakemans going up Stairs together he had<lb></lb>
seen them in Company for about an Hour in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo951">the Passage</rs>
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and at other parts of the Theatre<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1544-5">Thomas Pearce</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that after said Wakeman had been<lb></lb>
rescued from said Bryson he was again<lb></lb>
secured by a Continel and this Informant when<lb></lb>
Said</p>
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