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The Information of Elizabeth the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ312">Wife</rs>
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This 13th day of February 1789 Who being on their Oaths say<lb></lb>
and first the said Elizabeth on her oath saith last night as hear<lb></lb>
as she can say about half past nine as she was going from a<lb></lb>
Butchers in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo670">Ratcliff highway</rs>
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was the handkerchief produced containing Two Linen Shirts Three<lb></lb>
Linen Aprons One Pair of Ribbed Cotton Stockings marked<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
B<lb></lb>
one Demark napkin and a Common napkin her said husband<lb></lb>
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Bell<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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on his Oath saith this Night he received information<lb></lb>
that Mrs Bell had been robbed by three people last night between<lb></lb>
the house of nine and Ten of a Bundle That he went with her<lb></lb>
to the White last public house <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo672">Shadwell</rs>
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from amongst several people who she said was one<lb></lb>
of the people who had stopt and robbed her last night That<lb></lb>
he took him in the Back room when the Prosecutrix said<lb></lb>
the handkerchief about his neck was her property and in which<lb></lb>
were the Articles she had been robbed of</p>
<p n="760">Taken and Sworn<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date142">13 of Feb 1789</rs>
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Mark</p>
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says he bought the seed Handkerchief they<lb></lb>
afternoon of a Sailor for another handkerchief and a Shilling</p>
<p n="763">Taken Signed and declared to be the truth<lb></lb>
This <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date143">13 of Feb 1789</rs>
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