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<p n="1579"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1007">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1579-1">John Bluck</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1579-2">William<lb></lb>
Edson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1579-3">John Williams</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1579-4">Jeremiah Hill</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
this 10th. day of July 1789</p>
<p n="1580">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1580-1">John Bluck</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that on Wednesday last the Eighth Instant he<lb></lb>
this Informant dined at a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1008">Coffee house</rs>
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in the City at which time he is<lb></lb>
perfectly sure he had his watch in his pocket and about Two Guineas<lb></lb>
in Money and also his Handkerchief that after dinner<del>he</del>
he this Informant drank rather<lb></lb>
freely, but perfectly well recollects taking a Coach at or <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1009">near Charing Cross</rs>
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and was conveyed to his house at Fulham, that before he arrived home<lb></lb>
he missed his watch and money and also his Handkerchiefthat the<lb></lb>
watch and Handkerchief now produced by Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1580-2">Jeremiah<lb></lb>
Hill</rs>
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are his propertyAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1580-3">William Edson</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
says that between the hours of Nine and Ten of the Night of<lb></lb>
Wednesday last being near Scotland Yard he observed a person very<lb></lb>
much in Liquor and a Soldier was leading him, upon which Informant<lb></lb>
asked a man who was lighting the Lamp, and where Name he<lb></lb>
believes is Thomas Tarrett what was the matter who answered<lb></lb>
Informant that the Soldier who was then attending<del>him</del>
said<lb></lb>
person had robb'd him of his Watch, that Informant saw said<lb></lb>
Soldier lead said person to White Hall facing <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1010">the Horse Guards</rs>
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where said person sat down, and Informant saw said Soldier<lb></lb>
put his hand into said Gentleman pocket and took there from<lb></lb>
a Quantity of Money which he believes to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
have been Silver<lb></lb>
and which<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he saw afterwards in said Soldiers Hand, that the<lb></lb>
next morning Informant Williams came to his masters shop at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1011">the<lb></lb>
Horse Guards</rs>
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, and this Informant acquainted said Williams that<lb></lb>
the Soldier who was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ323">Breeches maker</rs>
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had robb'd a Gentleman<lb></lb>
the Night before of his watch and Moneyand that the person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1580-4">Samuel Alsford</rs>
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is the person who took the said money from persons Pocket And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1580-5">John<lb></lb>
Williams</rs>
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for himself says that the next morning he this<lb></lb>
Deponent charged a person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1580-6">Samuel Alsford</rs>
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<del>and</del>
with having robb'd a person the Night<lb></lb>
before of his watch and money, which said Alsford denied, upon<lb></lb>
which he this Informant immediately search'd said Alsford, and upon<lb></lb>
him found the watch and Handkerchief now produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1580-7">Jeremiah Hill</rs>
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