Middlesex to Wit

The Information of George Murphy< no role > of Crown Court Bow
Street Covent Garden Chairman, Samuel White< no role > of
Grosvenor Mews Grosvenor Square Chairman and Thomas
Adams< no role > of Vine Street near Chandois Street Labourer
taken before me this 23rd.. day of January 1782

Who being upon Oath say, and first the said George Murphy< no role >
says that last Night about [..] ding at the
Door of the Opera House in the Haymarket That he saw Baron
Kutrleben come from out of the Passage in Company with two Ladies
That when he came on the outside of the Door a Confusion arose
by the Coachmen drising their Horses against [..] each otherThat he
perceived a person now present who calls himself Lucius Hughes< no role >
standing rather behind the said Bar on Kutrleben and at the same time
saw the said Lucius Hughes< no role > 's Hand at the Fob of the Breeches of the Baron
That the Baron immediately called out he had lost [..] his Watch
and this Informant observed the said Hughes endeavouring to put the
Watch into his BreechesThat he then told the Baron that the said
Hughes was the Man who had his WatchThat he took the said
Hughes into Custody and delivered him to Mr. Miles a Constable
And the said Samuel White< no role > says that he was standing at the Door of the
Oper a House at the same time the said Murphy was thereThat
he [..] heard the said Baron Kutreben call out he had lost his Watch
and at the same time observed a Watch in the Hand of the said
Lucuis Hughes< no role > who was endeavouring to put it into his Breeches
That he seized hold of said Hughes, when he perceived a Watch
Case lying upon the PavementThat he then called out that the
Watch Case laid there and he saw the said Thomas Adams< no role > pick
it up and deliver it to one of the Ladies who was in Company
with the Baronandin a Coach at the Opera Door which induced
him at that time to think that the Ladys Pocket had been picked