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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n361-1">Joseph Porter</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo298">Middle<lb></lb>
Scotland Yard</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ124">Engraver</rs>
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taken before me this 26th. of Decemr. 1788</p>
<p n="362">Who being upon Oath saith that this afternoon<lb></lb>
between four and five o Clock as he was standing near the Steps leading out<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo299">Piazza into Covent Garden Theatre</rs>
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Passage with<lb></lb>
intention of going into the two Shilling Gallery of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo300">Theatre</rs>
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in company with the aforesaid<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n362-3">John Dadley</rs>
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<del>of</del>
he observed the said Dadley much<lb></lb>
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pushed about and Some time afterwards exclaim<lb></lb>
that he had been robbed That this Informant<lb></lb>
immediately received several Blows in his face<lb></lb>
and was himself also robbed of two Shillings<lb></lb>
That at this time to the best of this Informant knowledge the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n362-1">George Wakeman</rs>
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was amongst the croud and<lb></lb>
near this Informant and the said Dadley And<lb></lb>
further saith that he doth verily belive that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n362-2">George Wakeman</rs>
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is one of the persons that assaulted<lb></lb>
and heat him in the face and that he is one</p>
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