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<p n="389">27 Dec 1788</p>
<p n="390"> <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Mr. Colliester at <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n390-1">John Jefferson</rs>
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house a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ130">publican</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo311">the Ship inRedmead Lane St. George Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ131">Watchman</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
Yesterday morning he went from the Room he his in the Said house at which<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
The Custain Quilt Street and produced his property Value Two Shillings and<lb></lb>
expence were safe The door Locked. That this morning about the hour of nine he.<lb></lb>
heard that he had been robbed</p>
<p n="391"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n391-1">Cha: M: Collister</rs>
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</p>
<p n="392"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n392-1">John Jefferson</rs>
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on his Oath Saith last night about the hour of nine he heard that the<lb></lb>
Room he let to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n392-6">Charles Mr. Collister</rs>
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was robbed being in Liquor objected to hearing him<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n392-7">Jane</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ132">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n392-3">John Jefferson</rs>
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or her Oath Saith the prisoner at the Bar were yesterday Several times in the<lb></lb>
afternoon at had husbands house until Six at night when they went away and a little after nine as She was in the bar with Mrs.<lb></lb>
Rossiter She heard a Sudden psh which Shoot the bar She ordered her Servant Jane to take a light go and see what was the Matter on the<lb></lb>
Stairs without the house which the lodgers go their apartments without coming through the House. That her Servant took a light and wentant<lb></lb>
Mrs. Rossiter to See what was the Matter and almost<obscured></obscured>
to heard them cry thiefs. She run into the tap room where was Mr. Wiliam who frist wentant<lb></lb>
other followed The Girl came in with the Sheet and Shirt produced which she thought at frist to be her Servant Said it Mr. Collisters.that Wiltshire<lb></lb>
came in and Said the Thief was off but he had got his when she said give it me I will keep it, That her Said Servant Said it was<obscured></obscured>
put She would<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
it Say having That afternoon pulled the thread of<obscured></obscured>
from the place where it was<obscured></obscured>
that she have Said at up the bar and sent for<obscured></obscured>
Father<lb></lb>
who came and Said he would Sworn that the Said but was her sons hat which<obscured></obscured>
bar to give<obscured></obscured>
of Lion</p>
<p n="393">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n393-1">Jane<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Jefferson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="394"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n394">Mary</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ133">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n394-1">Charles Rossiter</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo312">Redmead Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo313">St. George Middlesex</rs>
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Smith<lb></lb>
on her Oath Saith last Night about the hour of nine as she was Sitting with Mrs.<lb></lb>
Jefferson in the bar She heard Some thing fall on the Ground<del>in </del>
that Mrs. Jefferson<lb></lb>
Said She was fear full Some body had broke in and order the Girl to go and See<lb></lb>
that She went out with Said Girl who had a Light in her hand and<del>went up Stair</del>
<lb></lb>
the Girl Said She Saw man Hand on the Lead that She herself locked and saw<lb></lb>
a Man with Something a white that she called out thief Says She cannot Say<lb></lb>
with certainty if either of the person present who Say their names are <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n394-2">Joseph<lb></lb>
Darrell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n394-3">John Price</rs>
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is the person She Saw as aforesaidThat She went up<lb></lb>
Stairs unto Mr. Collisters Room and found a pane of glass taken but of the Casement<lb></lb>
and the casement wide open The Coverled half out of the WindowThat she Saw<lb></lb>
Something white lay on the lead what it was She dont know</p>
<p n="395">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n395-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Rossiter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="396"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n396-1">Jane Elizabeth Ashton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ134">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Jefferson on her oath Saith That last<lb></lb>
night by order of her Mistress She went Mrs. Rossiter to look up the Stairson<lb></lb>
the out side of the house to see it any body was there She having a Candle in her hand that<lb></lb>
She Saw one one corner of the lead as man with a blue Jacket Round hat with Some<lb></lb>
thing white round himthat Mrs. Rossier called Stop thief The Man humbled<lb></lb>
off the Lead upon the Stairs and on the Stones in the Alley That <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n396-2">Charles Wiltshire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
She Saw pursue the said Man That she pished the Sheet and Shirt produced from<lb></lb>
out of a Kannel in the Said Alley and delivered them to her mistressSays She<lb></lb>
only Saw the back of the person which appeared to her to be such a man as She Saw<lb></lb>
on the Top of the Lead and who Wilts hire<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
persued</p>
<p n="397">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n397-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Ashton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark.</p>
<p n="398">That She is certain the hat produced is the Same hat which <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n398-6">Joseph Darrell</rs>
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had on his lead Yesterday in the afternoon<lb></lb>
at her Said Masters house<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n398-1">Charles Wiltshire</rs>
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at Mrs. Corbett in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo314">Artichoke lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo315">St. George Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ135">Butcher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath Saith last night about a Quarter past nine as he was Sitting in the Tap<lb></lb>
room of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n398-2">John Jefferson</rs>
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he heard the out cry of Stop thief he run out with a Candler<lb></lb>
in his hand he run out to the fast of the Stair on the out side the that he<figure rend="mark"></figure>
<lb></lb>
Catched at a person coming off the Stair and laid hold of his hat and hair that another<lb></lb>
person jumped off Said Stairs and baet him down and he the thinks the man he had hold<lb></lb>
off who got away was<obscured></obscured>
That Mr Jefferson informing him who the person were.<lb></lb>
they went to the Lodgings of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n398-3">Joseph Darrell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo316">No. 36 in Red mead Lane </rs>
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not funding him<lb></lb>
returned to Jefferson and about half un hour after hearing hear Dorrell was at<lb></lb>
home in the mean time Dorrells father came to Jefferson and Claimed the Said hat<obscured></obscured>
being<lb></lb>
his SonsThat went and apprehended <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n398-4">Joseph Dorrell</rs>
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on Suspicion of having<lb></lb>
robbed the Room of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n398-7">Charles Mr. Collister</rs>
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</p>
<p n="399"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n399-1">Charles Wiltshire</rs>
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</p>
<p n="400">Taken and Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date78">27 th day of December 1788</rs>
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Before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n400-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ136">Esqr</rs>
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. one of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ137">Justice of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo317">County of Middlesex</rs>
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