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Esther
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Stephen for herself says that on Saturday night last about
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Nine oClock as she was Standing in her Shop and the black Silk Cloak
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Open, She saw a hand (but whether Mans or Womans she Cannot
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When she went out and Called Stop Thief, and that after the Prisoner
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now present who calls herself
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black Silk Cloak and Pettycoat was given to her by a Man whom
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Pettycoat to the said
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for herself says that she saw the Prisoner
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Run from the said Mrs. Stephens
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door at that time and
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after going about forty Yards She saw her drop something black
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which she beleives to be the Cloak and Pettycoat now produced And
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for himself says that the Cloak and Pettycoat
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at that time
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Sworn before me the day
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and Year above Written
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her
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