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) and robbed me of a silver watch, a steel seal, and a padlock key. They all surrounded me; one of them clapped his hand upon my breast, and the little one in the black wig [Potbury] I think 'tis him, robbed me.</p>
<p>Q. Was there any boy among them?</p>
<p>Hind. I don't know that there was; I can't say any thing to that; they put me in a great fright.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know Page?</p>
<p>Hind. I can't say that I do; I don't know any body but him in the black wig. I heard of some people being taken up, by an advertisement that was published. I went one day last week to enquire about it, and was in hopes of hearing of my watch again, but I never did.</p>
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* was taken up for a robbery, and we were sent for to endeavour to get him away.</p>
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in the day time, no person being therein, and received sentence of Transportion. Page 228. Trial 429.</p>
<p>Q. Did they always send for you upon these occasions?</p>
<p>Harper. They always helped one another, if they knew them.</p>
<p>Q. Suppose you did not know them, would you do it then?</p>
<p>Harper. If we met a man with a Constable in the Street, though we did not know him, we went to rescue him. The same night Billingsly went to the Horns in Gutter Lane, and called for a glass of brandy, and seeing a silver spoon he broke it in two, and that he kept to himself; we went to Holbourn Bridge, and there we met Page, Brister and Lippy; then we saw <rs type="persName" id="t17441205-37-person471"> <interp inst="t17441205-37-person471" type="role" value=""></interp>
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and two or three more, we told them about rescuing Young, and they said they would not get themselves into a broil for any body: when we got to the end of Woodstreet we met <rs type="persName" id="t17441205-37-person472"> <interp inst="t17441205-37-person472" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, and Jack the Sailor - some of them had hangers.</p>
<p>Q. What could Gadd do to rescue any body?</p>
<p>Harper. He could do as much mischief as anybody.</p>
<p>Q. How did they carry their hangers?</p>
<p>Harper. At their belts under their coats, they did not mind who saw them.</p>
<p>Q. Did Gadd carry a hanger?</p>
<p>Harper. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Did he carry his under his coat?</p>
<p>Harper. His was one that was broke and ground down, and as it was shorter than the others, it would be hid pretty well under his coat. <rs type="persName" id="t17441205-37-person473"> <interp inst="t17441205-37-person473" type="role" value=""></interp>
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and Gadd had got a watch in Wood-street, and they wanted to keep it: then we went up Wood-street, and in Cheapside we met two men, and Jack the Sailor took a watch from one of them.</p>
<p>Q. What time of night was it?</p>
<p>Harper. It was about eight o'clock.</p>
<p>Q. Was it not dark then?</p>
<p>Harper. It was just dusk.</p>
<p>Hind. I was robbed between Wood-street and Gutter-lane.</p>
<p>Harper. It was about thirty yards on this side Wood-street; after that we went all in a body down Newgate-street, and then they were wrangling and quarrelling as they went along the street, who had a right to what they had got that day; and Billingsly said to Watson, that he should have nothing, and that Page should have nothing, and<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="174412050030"></xptr>
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in Seacole Lane.</p>
<p>Q. Was Page with you at this robbery?</p>
<p>Harper. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. What did he do?</p>
<p>Harper. We all assisted alike - Page had no part of the money, nor Roberts neither; and The. had no other part but what Brister gave him, for they went out picking of pockets together, and Brister said, he should have part of it.</p>
<p>Brister. Mr. Broomer impressed me, and I was sent down to Tilbury Fort.</p>
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