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<p n="572"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo349">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n572-1">William Whitten</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo350">Kentish<lb></lb>
Town</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ111">Shoemaker</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n572-2">Elizabeth Curtis</rs>
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of the same<lb></lb>
place <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ112">Singlewoman</rs>
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taken before me Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n572-3">Sampson<lb></lb>
Wright</rs>
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Knight this 15th. Day of June 1789.</p>
<p n="573">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n573-1">William<lb></lb>
Whitten</rs>
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for himself says that about one o'Clock in the Morning<lb></lb>
of Wednesday lash the wth. Instant it being then shewg motion light as he this Informant in<lb></lb>
Company with the other Informant were returning from the Queens<lb></lb>
Head Public Horse in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo351">Holles Street Cavendish Square</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo352">Kentish<lb></lb>
Town</rs>
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, about Midway of the Turnpike Road leading from Mother<lb></lb>
Red Caps upon the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo353">Hampstead Road</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo354">Kentish Town</rs>
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, they were<lb></lb>
met by Two men, that as this Informant was passing them, one of the<lb></lb>
Men gently laid hold of his Collar and said "Excuse me", and upon<lb></lb>
Informants<del>De</del>
plying "Excuse me for What". said man drew a<lb></lb>
pistol from under his<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
held it towards his this Informants<lb></lb>
Breast which Pistol Informant turned<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
aside with one hand and struck<lb></lb>
at said Man with the other, that Informant then fell down and his hat fell off and as<lb></lb>
he was<del>arising</del>
said Man again presented the pistol at himthat<lb></lb>
Informant then ran away<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo355">Kentish Town</rs>
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and said Man<lb></lb>
pursued him and as Informant out ran him, he stop'd his pursuit &<lb></lb>
returned towards the other Informant, as did also this Informant<lb></lb>
that upon Informant coming again near the said Man, he<lb></lb>
turned round and again presented the pistol upon which Informant<lb></lb>
again ran away and said Man pursued, and again both returned<lb></lb>
towards the other Informant when said Man again presented<lb></lb>
the pistolthat the said Two Men they ran away Fields that during all this Time neither of said Two Men<lb></lb>
made any demand of Informants Money or other property<lb></lb>
neither did the Man that was in Company with him that<lb></lb>
presented the Pistol do any Act<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
or say anything<lb></lb>
whatsoeverAnd this Informant also says that the has never seen<lb></lb>
his hat sinceThat he this Informant has several Times been<lb></lb>
at the sign of the Britania on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo356">Hampstead road</rs>
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where he has<lb></lb>
often<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
seen a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n573-2">William<lb></lb>
Edwards</rs>
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and who he this Informant always understood to be one of<lb></lb>
the patrole Employed from the Public Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo357">Bow Street</rs>
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and that<lb></lb>
he has drank with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n573-3">William Edwards</rs>
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at the said House<lb></lb>
and he this Informant believes that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n573-4">William Edwards</rs>
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