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Hair Dresser And George Whittish of
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No 5
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1789
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for herself says that about half on hour
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past three o Clock this afternoon as she was sitting in the parlour
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behind the Shop she saw the prisoner now present who calls
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go out of the Shop with
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upon which she ran to the Door called out stop thiefAnd the said
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for himself says that he was present in said Glass
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with a Parcel
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under his Arm, run down Vine Street. And the said
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Charles Gasling for himself
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says that he was also
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present and heard said Mrs Smith call out stop thief and
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that he saw the said
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the prisoner now present
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run down Vine Street with a parcel under his left Arm that
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he this Informant pursued him through George Court into
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where he was Apprehended, That in George Court
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aforesaid
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