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to Wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of Esther Stephen Wife of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1400-1">James Stephen</rs>
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of Holywell Street Piece broker, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1400-2">Mary<lb></lb>
Fildew</rs>
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Wife of Bartholomew Fildew of No 12 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo893">Bell<lb></lb>
Yard</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1400-3">Richard<lb></lb>
Simmons</rs>
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one of the Constables of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo895">Saint Mary<lb></lb>
le Strand</rs>
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taken on Oath before me this 17th. day<lb></lb>
of August 1789.</p>
<p n="1401">Who being on Oath severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
Esther<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Stephen for herself says that on Saturday night last about<lb></lb>
Nine oClock as she was Standing in her Shop and the black Silk Cloak<lb></lb>
and Pettycoat now produced hanging in the Shop and the Shop door<lb></lb>
Open, She saw a hand (but whether Mans or Womans she Cannot<lb></lb>
Say) take said Cloak and Pettycoat down and Run away with it<lb></lb>
When she went out and Called Stop Thief, and that after the Prisoner<lb></lb>
now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1401-1">Catharine Hussey</rs>
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was Secured, the<lb></lb>
black Silk Cloak and Pettycoat was given to her by a Man whom<lb></lb>
She believes Picked it up and that she gave said Cloak and<lb></lb>
Pettycoat to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1401-2">Richard Simmons</rs>
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the Constable And the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1401-3">Mary Fildew</rs>
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for herself says that she saw the Prisoner<lb></lb>
Run from the said Mrs. Stephens<del>Shop</del>
door at that time and<lb></lb>
after going about forty Yards She saw her drop something black<lb></lb>
which she beleives to be the Cloak and Pettycoat now produced And<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1401-4">Richard Simmons</rs>
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for himself says that the Cloak and Pettycoat<lb></lb>
now produced by him are the same he received from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1401-5">Esther Stephens</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at that time</p>
<p n="1402">Sworn before me the day<lb></lb>
and Year above Written<lb></lb>
N Bond}</p>
<p n="1403"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1403-1">Esther Suphen</rs>
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<p n="1404">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1404-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Fildew</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ277">Constable</rs>
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