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11th November 1768 - 5th December 1768

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Image 9 of 15830th December 1767


Middlesex To wit

The Information of Mary Pearson< no role > of
Fleet Street Widow and Mary < no role > her
Daughter taken before me this 30th.
Day of December 1767

Who being upon Oath severally say that on Tuesday
the 22nd. of December Insts. about six o'Clock in the Evening
two Persons came into their Shop to buy a pair of Silver
Buckles which they cheapered but did not buy, and this
Informant Mary Pearson< no role > for herself saith in about an
hour afterwards the same Persons returned again when
one of them knocked this Informant down and that the
other took away a Drawer containing a Quantity of Silver
Buckles and further says that a Person now present
who calls himself Thomas Anderson< no role > is the same Person
who came into her Shop and knocked her down as aforesaid
and that she believes anther Person now present who
calls himself Samuel Stephens< no role > to be the Person who
carried away the Drawer and Buckles as aforesaid
and this Informant Mary Pearson< no role > Spinstr . For herself
saith that she believes the said Stephens and the said
Anderson to be the same two Persons who came into her
Mother's Shop and cheapened a pair of Buckles as
aforesaid that about and Hour afterwards as she was
sitting in her Parlour she heard her Mother scream
out that she run into the Shop and found the Drawer
of Buckles had been stolen

Sworn the day and
Year first about written}

[..]

NB the reason that this
Inf: is not Signed by the Parties
is, because Miss Peareson did
not the re-examination




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