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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1245-1">John Oakes</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ500">Elder</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1245-2">John Elsworth</rs>
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taken this 18th Day of April<lb></lb>
1789 before me</p>
<p n="1246">Who being upon say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1246-1">John Oakes</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ501">Elder</rs>
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for himself says that this Morning he brought Twelve<lb></lb>
Roasting Pigs from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1139">Ealing</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1140">London</rs>
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for salethat in<lb></lb>
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he Employed the prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1246-7">Richard Mc. Gee</rs>
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to carry said pigs from thence to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1142">Clare Market</rs>
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, where<lb></lb>
Informant took Two of the said Pigs in order to sell them<lb></lb>
and left said Mc. Gee in Care of the other Ten in a Basket till he<lb></lb>
Returnedthat when informant returned he found the said<lb></lb>
Basket with Nine Pigs only but not said Mc. Geethat in about<lb></lb>
five Minutes the said Mc. Gee came when informant asked<lb></lb>
him what was become of the other pigs who replied Da<obscured></obscured>
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the Pig I know nothing of the pig I know nothing of it there were<lb></lb>
no more left than what are thereThat Informant then<lb></lb>
askd him where he had been, and he replied he had been<lb></lb>
to have a Pint of Beerthat Informant still continued to<lb></lb>
charge him with taking said Pig and he as possitively<lb></lb>
denied that he had seen it and several Time threatned<lb></lb>
to Knock this Informant downAnd this Informant<lb></lb>
further says he is very sure that the roasting Pig now<lb></lb>
produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1246-4">John Elsworth</rs>
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is the Identical Pig which was<lb></lb>
taken out of his Basket from the remaining Nine, and<lb></lb>
left in the possession of said Mc. Gee as aforesaidAnd<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1246-5">John Elsworth</rs>
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for himself says that this Morning about<lb></lb>
half past Nine o'Clock the prisoner Richard Mc. Gee came<lb></lb>
to this Informants shop the Coroner of Clare Street and asked</p>
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