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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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with him and or going to them with the Landlord they
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asked him of he would not compromise the Matter but
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being Answered in the Negative they told him they would be
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damned if he should have the Goods that the Prisoner
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now under Examination was one of the
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Persons that made that Declaration that Informant
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asked them of they would or dared to attempt a Rescue
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who answered that they possitively would and the conformer
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then broke off and the Officers thereupon observed the two
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Horses and Cart with the Tabacco about a Mile from the
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Inn towards London near a Hour called the Galley
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Hill, this Informant having then the White driving the
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Horser and the other Officer walking a little before
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That the Prisoner and the said other Person who before would
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to compromise the Matter at the Inn and three New
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Men on Horse Back came up to him, when one of them
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and cocked a Brass Pistol and Insisted on Informant
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going up the Seizure and Threat and to Fire at him of
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he did not comply, but Informant resolutely persisted in
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his duly and one of the Men on Horse back put spurs why
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Horse and rode Informant down and the Smuglers then obsene
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a general Fire upon the Officer and wounded two of the
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