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The Information of William
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One of His
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Saturday the fourteenth day of January instant at about
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the hour of Five of the Clock in the Evening he was employed
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Foster Lane He was accosted by the Prisoner Simon
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Solomons who said to this Informant. You seem to
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have a very heavy load and likewise asked him where
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he was going. Upon which this Informant told him
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. The said Simon
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Solomons then said he would give this Informant a
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lift as far as
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. This Informant then
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said he should be glad if he would and he this
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Informant would give him a Penny for a Glass of Gin
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That the load was then lifted From this Informant upon
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(Who had a Knott and seemed like a Porter) by this
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Informant and another Man who came behind him
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That almost immediately after a Man fell down before
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this Informant and between him and the said Simon
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