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The joint and several Informations of Elizabeth
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of the same place,
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Watch Maker Who being on Oath severally
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say and First the said Elizabeth & Smith for
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herself saith that on Wednesday the Fourth
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day of October Instant, the Door of her Yard
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was broke open, and a Quantity of wet Linen
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stolen out of the Yard of her House, and having
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a Suspicion of
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the Prisoner now
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under Examination, who lodged in Informant's
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House, she went into said Prisoner's Room and
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put her Hands upon a pair of Streets now produced
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her Property which was part of the Linen stolen
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out of the Yard, and told the Prisoner they were
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her Streets, and in the Prisoner's Room also
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found a Petticoat which was stolen out of the
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YardSays, that the Prisoner claimed he
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as her own, said she had been was
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them which was the Reason of their being wet
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Says, that before she found the Petticoat in the
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Prisoner's Room, she asked her where it was,
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and the Prisoner said she knew nothing about
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itInformant then searched for it and
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found the Petticoat secreted under some Shavings
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Prisoner said, she did not know how it came
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And the said Informant Jane
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Clark for herself saith, that she was present
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with the above named
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Elizabeth Smith
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in the
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Prisoner's Roomthat she has heard the Contents
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of said Smith's Information read, and says all the
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Particulars thereof are true, and she knows no
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more herself of said Robbery
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Taken and Sworn at
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the 13th day of October 1780 before me}
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Wm Kitchin
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Smith
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Jane
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