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were two lodgers in the House with whom Informant had no
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Character with & having heard by another acquaintance of his as
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he said of a man & woman having taken lodgings at that Acquainterey
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Sister & soon after
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going away sad taking
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to his said Acquantance's and then received
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such a Description of Thompson as to have him no longer in
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doubt of his being the person, but Informant wanting to go to the person's
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Sister who had been robbed he told him that he knew his Sister
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could not go to his House that night but that he knew of another
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person who had been robbed and then named the Informant
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Humphrey's according by her & his man went to Humphreys's House
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who was in Bed, and
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coming to the Door Informant should ask him to eat a vict
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of Supper and if it was not the person who robbed him he was
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Humphrey's in to supper & as a soon as he came to the parlour Door
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the prisoner Thompson started up in great Confusion and stood for sometime
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by the name of parker how he did, who muttered some thing to
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down in the Chair he row from, & looking to his Wife said
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dawn it were are trapped says that he remembers hearing
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Thompson make the Declaration above Stated in the Information
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by said Humphreys namely that he did not care for that they could only
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send him to the Ballast Lighter for three years and her to
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William Gill
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