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Middlesex
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The Informations of Thomas Connor< no role > Master
of the Workhouse of the Parish of St. Mary le bone in
the said County of Middlesex , Thomas Hammond< no role >
of Henrietta Street< no role > Cavendish Square Plumber
Edward Crocker< no role > son of Henry Crocker< no role > of
Tottenham Court Road Broker, and Robert Hatch< no role >
of the same Place Butcher, taken on Oath
before me this 19th. day of November 1789.

Who being on Oath severally say, And first the said
Thomas Connor< no role > for himself says that in the Night of the Eleventh
instant there was Stolen from the top of the Mens Privy in said
Workhouse a large Quantity of Lead, that three of the four
pieces of Lead now produced, he has no doubt are part of
the Lead so Stolen as aforesaid, And the said Thomas Hammond< no role >
for himself says that he hath Carefully examined and Compared
the Lead now produced with the Remaining lead on the top of
said Privy and has no doubt but that three of the pieces of
said Lead were cut and taken from thence, And the said
Edward Crocker< no role > for himself says that on Thursday the 12th. of
this instant between One and two o Clock in the Afternoon as
he was standing in his Fathers Shop in Tottenham Court Road
he saw the two Prisoners now present who call themselves
Henry Howard< no role > and William Rollier< no role > , go past, each of them
Carrying a bundle, that from their Appearance he suspected
they had something in their Possession not honestly come by
upon which he immediately went to the said Robert Hatch< no role > who
is a Constable and lives about two hundred Yards from Informts.
and told him, that he suspected [..] two Men had got some
Stolen Lead, at the same time Pointing out to him, the
said two Prisoners And that the said Robert Hatch< no role > in
consequence of this Informants intelligence took said two




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