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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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him leaving at that time said Stephenson in his Compting
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House and said Collins in his Shop That Informant then place
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himself in
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in order to observe said Stephenson conduct thro'
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the said Hole and in about ten minutes he saw said
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Stephenson place himself by said Till and immediately
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draw out the same into which he put his hand which
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he afterward applied to his pocket and then Shut the till
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again that Informant then unlocked the door went into
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the Shop and took said Stephenson by the Collar and told
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him he had Robbed him when said Stephenson took out
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the money in his right hand Breech as pocket amounting
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to about Eight or Nine Shillings all which he lay or the
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Compter That Informant desired said Collins to go, and
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examine said Till telling him that he Informant had put
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therein an half Guinea and Eleven Shillings and Six pence in
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Silver and desired to know what he found therein who
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replied there was only on half Guinea and
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Seven
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Shillings and two Six pences That Informant then
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examined the money on the Compter which had been produced
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by said Stephenson among which he found the half Crown
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and Shilling now produced and which he is very sure is
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a part of the money he so marked and put into said Till
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as aforesaid And the said
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Charles Morris
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for himself says
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that he marked said money with Mr. Potter as described by
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him And that he bored the hole with him in the Partition of
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his passage and & is very sure that the Half Crown and
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Shilling now produced is a part of the money so marked
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by them And the said
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Richard Collins
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for himself says that
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from the time of said Mr. Potter's putting said marked money
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into the Till to the time of Mr. Potter securing said
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Stephenson no person whatever was in said Shop or went to
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said Till And further says that when Informant examined
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