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The several Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n374-1">William Dalton</rs>
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taken this 30th day of January 1788</p>
<p n="375">Who upon their Oathes severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n375-1">William Dalton</rs>
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Tyre Smith for himself saith<lb></lb>
that on Thursday last he went from his house which is in Stone Cutters Alley <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo270">Lincolns<lb></lb>
Inn</rs>
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Fields and returned about ten o'Clock in the Evening, that on the morning following he<lb></lb>
was informed there was stolen from his premises three Iron Axtle Tree Arms, that<lb></lb>
he said to his Workmen he did not like for things to go on in that manner, that he<lb></lb>
was afterwards informed one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n375-2">George Goodwin</rs>
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a Tyre Smith wanted to speak with<lb></lb>
him that soon after he saw <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n375-3">George Goodwin</rs>
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who informed him, he had seen several<lb></lb>
things which he thought was his Property that when <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n375-4">George Goodwin</rs>
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discribed<lb></lb>
them he knew them to be his, that he then came to the Public Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo271">Bloomsbury</rs>
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and had a search warrant granted him, by virtue of which he went with<lb></lb>
an officer and searched the house of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n375-5">John Scotney</rs>
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where he found the<lb></lb>
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which he had lost in a Bag in the Shop and which he swears<lb></lb>
to be his that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n375-6">John Scotney</rs>
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said he gave a Penny a pound for them</p>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45035_occ108">Constable</rs>
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for himself saith that on Friday morning last by virtue of a Search<lb></lb>
Warrant he went to the house of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n376-2">John<del>Sct</del>
Scotney</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo273">Parkers Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo274">Drury<lb></lb>
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where he found<del>the</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo275">three Axtle Tree Arms</rs>
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in a Bag in the Shop<lb></lb>
and which the Prosecutor swears to be his property</p>
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for himself saith that on Thursday Evening last he sent<lb></lb>
his Wife to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n377-2">George Goodwin</rs>
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's with some Coach Nails that when she returned<lb></lb>
from there she informed him that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n377-3">George Goodwin</rs>
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had told her, "he had lost<lb></lb>
Coach Axtle Tree Arm that he wished her husband would look out and see<lb></lb>
whether there was such a thing in any Iron Shop, "that soon after the<del>Prisoner</del>
<lb></lb>
Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n377-4">John Scotney</rs>
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came to his and asked him to go home with him<lb></lb>
that he did when <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n377-5">John Scotney</rs>
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shewed him the three Axtle Tree Arms which<lb></lb>
the Prosecutor now swears to<del>that</del>
and asked him whether he would or not cut them<lb></lb>
up so as to disfigure them,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that he tole<del>them</del>
him he'd call again<lb></lb>
in an hour's time, that according to what his Wife informed him he thought<lb></lb>
they belonged to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n377-6">George Goodwin</rs>
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and immediately went and informed him<lb></lb>
of it that they then came to the Public office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo276">Bloomsbury</rs>
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for a Search Warrant<lb></lb>
but the Magistrate there thought proper not to grant him one, that afterwards<lb></lb>
a<del>Search</del>
Warrant was granted to the aforesaid William Daltars to search<lb></lb>
the house and premises of the Prisoners where the said Axtle Tree Arms were<lb></lb>
found</p>
<p n="378">Sworn the 30th<lb></lb>
Day of January 1788}</p>
<p n="379">Before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n379-1">D Walker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n380-2">Edwd. Tredway</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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