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The Information of Samuel Dyer< no role > taken on Oath before me
James Spagg< no role > one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in
and for the said County this 19th. day of July 1773

Who saith that on Saturday last the 17th of July instant about
eleven o'Clock at Night two Girls Picked him up in swan
Alley and carried him to the House of one Mrs Grear in
Swan Alley where he gave a woman now present and
says her name is Margaret White< no role > a Shilling to get some
Liquor and also another Shilling for a Room and bed that he then went up Stairs with [..] said two
Girls and pulled of his Trousers and layed them on a chair
at the foot of a Bed That then one of the Girls Picked his
Trousers Pocket of two Shillings that he got out of Bed
in order to prevent her from so doing but the Girls cried
out Murther and [..] said they would have his brains beat
out or words to that Effect and then run down Stairs that
he endeavoured to follow them but was prevented by the said
Margaret White< no role > who seized him by the Cholar and held
him till the said girls escapd-That he then got [..]
down stairs and into the street naked except his Shirt
down Stairs-saith he doth [..] not know the names of either
of the said Girls who picked his pocket

Sworn the day & year above
written before me}
Saml. Spagg< no role >

Saml. Dyer< no role >




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