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The Information of Edward John Aplin
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of Monkwell Street
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London, Working
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, Who being on Oath
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saith, that about half an hour after eight O'Clock
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last Night, he was going down
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, with Six Silver desert
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Spoons and a pair of silver tea tongs, to be taken to
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a Customer of his Master'sSays, that at the End
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of a Court Next before
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Mary Floyd
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stood with another Woman not
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present
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the Prisoner accosted Informant, and taking hold of
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his right Arm, she pulled him close to a door way
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Informant endeavoured to exticate himself from her
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hold, and seeing his handkerchief nearly out of
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his Pocket, he got away from the Prisoner, as he
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was satisfied had an Intention to steal his handkerchief
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Informant walked away about ten Yards, down
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, and then the six Spoons and the tea
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tongs occused to him, and upon searching his
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Pocket, where the handkerchief was, and where he
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had put the Plate, the same was missingInformant
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instantly returned to the Spot where he was accosted
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by the Prisoner, and Found, that she was gone
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Informant went by the way of
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, Where he met the Prisoner, and laid
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hold of her, charging her with stealing the six Spoons
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and tea tongsthe Prisoner said Informant much
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have dropt them at the Place, where they stood together
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Informant and the Prisoner went together there, and
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she stooped down as though to pick up something when
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Informant heard the Prisoner drop the Five Spoons,
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and the tea tongs now Produced, which are the same
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he lost in manner aforesaid, are the Property of his
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Master, and of the Value of Forty Shillings and
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