Middlesex
to Wit
The Information of
Benjamin Bayless< no role >
of Rolls Buildings
Fetter Lane
in the County of Middlesex
Land lord
of
the Kings Arms Alehouse
and
Margaret Cameron< no role >
Servant
to the said
Benjamin Bayless< no role >
taken before
me this 13th.. day of December 1781
Who being upon Oath say, and first the said Benjamin
Bayless< no role >
says, that about 8 oClock in the Evening of last Tuesday was a
Week, his one pair of stairs back Room was opened and Two Watches,
two Mourning Rings, two silver Punch Ladlerthe silver Lid of a
Tankard the plated did of a Tankard & about twenty pounds in Money
was stolen thereoutAnd the said Margaret Cameron< no role >
says that about
8 oClock in the said Evening of Tuesday was a Week, as she was
going for some Butter (which was in a Cupboard was the bottom of
the Stairs leading up to the said one pair of Stairs back Room) she
Perceived a person now present who calls himself Daniel Murphy< no role >
, [..]
[..] coming down the Stairs into the Passage
That the said Daniel
Murphy< no role >
on coming into the said Passage Pulled his Hat over his
Eyes and buttoned his Great Coat as he went along the Passage
, and
as soon as he came to the Step of the Street Door, he called out
"Hem"That on Account of the suspicions Situation in which she
had seen the said [..]
Daniel Murphy< no role >
and thinking be had Robbed her
said Masters Houseshe immediately went to her Mistress and asked
her if she had Pad locked her Door, as she had just seen a Man come
down the StairsThat her said Mistress denied her to go up and see
if the Door was fast or not, andshewent with This Informant past
of the way up Stairsthat on this Informants lifting up the Latch
of the Door, the Door opened, and she found the Room had been