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The Information of Simon Wood of Rumalley<lb></lb>
Spicers Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo420">Bethnal Green</rs>
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Weaver <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n706-1">James Wood</rs>
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of the same place Weaver <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n706-2">Benjamin Nash</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo421">High Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo422">Mile End new Town</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n706-3">Alexander Stephenson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo423">Crown<lb></lb>
court</rs>
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Wapping Carpenter taken this 26th. day of June 1789</p>
<p n="707">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-1">Simon Wood</rs>
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for himself saith on Wednesday Morning<lb></lb>
last the 24th of June Instant between the hours of Four and five<lb></lb>
he heard a noise and went to the fails and saw the persons present<lb></lb>
who say their names are <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-2">Joseph Lucas</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-3">James Rock</rs>
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with<lb></lb>
a Bundle and throw the same into the empty House next door<lb></lb>
and went away that him and his Father waited for their<lb></lb>
return after watching them and in about a Quarter of an<lb></lb>
hour they returned when they apprehended them called<lb></lb>
for help when <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-4">Joseph Lucas</rs>
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drawed the Knife produced out<lb></lb>
at his Pocket and threatned to cut their Bloody Livers out<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-5">William James</rs>
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on his oath saith he went to the assistance<lb></lb>
of his Neighbour and saw the prisoners strugling with Simon<lb></lb>
Wood and his father <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-6">James Wood</rs>
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that he helped to secure them<lb></lb>
and some time after <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-7">Benjamin Nash</rs>
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. the officer came<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-8">James Wood</rs>
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on his oath saith his son telling him he<lb></lb>
had Seen two men throw a Bundle into the empty house<lb></lb>
he waited and was at the taken of them and went to the<lb></lb>
place and saw the lead produced tyed up in the Apron<lb></lb>
produced<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-9">Benjamin Nash</rs>
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on his oath saith on<lb></lb>
the Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-10">Simon Wood</rs>
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and his Father that<lb></lb>
Bundle had been chucked into the empty house by the<lb></lb>
Two prisoners in their hearing being in Custody that he<lb></lb>
took said Bundle out of the said house containing the<lb></lb>
Three pieces of lead produced which he has kept possession<lb></lb>
ever since <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-11">Alexander Stevenson</rs>
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on his oath saith the<lb></lb>
lead produced he has measured the Gutter belonging to a<lb></lb>
house of Mr. Andrew Burt and found it to correspond<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-12">George Dowling</rs>
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on his oath saith he lives in a house of<lb></lb>
Mr Burts in <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n707-13">Samuel Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo424">Mile End new Town</rs>
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and that<lb></lb>
on Tuesday afternoon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
last the lead of a Gutter on the said<lb></lb>
house was safeThat about the hour of Two on Wednesday<lb></lb>
morning he was claimed by a Watchman there were thieves<lb></lb>
stealing the lead and found about the hour of Six the same morning<lb></lb>
The dead was gone and has not doubt the lead produced is the same lead</p>
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