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<p n="92"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.<lb></lb>
to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n92-1">William Watson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n92-2">James<lb></lb>
Mr. Coombs</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n92-3">Mary Mitchel</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n92-4">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Sanson</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date20">2d Day of January 1787</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="93">Who being on Oath say and first <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n93-1">William Watson</rs>
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& James<lb></lb>
Mr Coombs for themselves say that they are Patrdes of the Parish<lb></lb>
of St Johns in the said City & Liberty that Last Night between the<lb></lb>
Howes of Tend Eleven they mett in Peter Street a Man now present<lb></lb>
who Calls Himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n93-2">Thomas Smith</rs>
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with a Large Bundle that being<lb></lb>
asked by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n93-3">James Mc Coombs</rs>
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what he had get answered<lb></lb>
his own Property with which He was going Home but would<lb></lb>
not tell where He Lived that being told by these Informants<lb></lb>
He must go to the Watchouse the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n93-4">Thomas Smith</rs>
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offered to<lb></lb>
Shew them from whence He took the said Bundle and took<lb></lb>
these Informants to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n93-5">Thomas Mitchel</rs>
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in Perkins<lb></lb>
Rents through a Passage into the Yard of the said House<lb></lb>
whence the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n93-6">Thomas Smith</rs>
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lifted up the Sash of the Parlour<lb></lb>
Window and attempted to port the said Bundle in but was fore-<lb></lb>
-vented by these Informants</p>
<p n="94">And Mary Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n94-1">Thomas Mitchel</rs>
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for Herself says<lb></lb>
that last Night about Ten o Clock She left her House in Perkins<lb></lb>
Rents that she locked her Room door (the Right hand Parlour<lb></lb>
after having fastened the Window down with a Broken Nail<lb></lb>
-Piercer that on her Return about Half an Hour after She found<lb></lb>
her Room had been Robb'd and this Informt further says that<lb></lb>
the Blanket Sheet and other Articles now produced are her<lb></lb>
Property and were Stolen from out her said Room the door of<lb></lb>
which continued Locked on her Return</p>
<p n="95">And <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n95-24">Elizabeth</rs>
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Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n95-2">William Sanson</rs>
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says that She<lb></lb>
keeps a House next Door to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n95-3">Thomas Mitchel</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
about Half past Ten o Clock, last Night She was Standing at<lb></lb>
her Door and saw a Person now present who calls Himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n95-4">Thomas Smith</rs>
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come out of the said House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n95-5">Thomas Mitchel</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with a Bundle tye'd up in a Street that this Informt: immediately<lb></lb>
went and Informed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n95-6">Thomas Mitchel</rs>
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& his <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ24">Wife</rs>
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</p>
<p n="96">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date21">2d Day of January 1787</rs>
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<lb></lb>
S Goal Abington</p>
<p n="97">W Kabeen <lb></lb>
Ths Mc Combs</p>
<p n="98"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n98-1">Mary Mitchell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Eln Sansum</p>
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