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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n767-1">Thomas Speed</rs>
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of Common<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n767-2">Street London</rs>
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Stewart to and living with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n767-4">Thomas Speed</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n767-5">John Hodge</rs>
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to Mr Warrington<lb></lb>
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London Taylor. Taken<lb></lb>
upon Oath before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n767-6">William Plomer</rs>
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Esquire one<lb></lb>
of the Aldermen of the said CIty this 1st. March<lb></lb>
1781</p>
<p n="768">First the Informant Phillip Phillips saith that about Eight<lb></lb>
o Clock Yesterday Evening he was desired by the said Other<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n768-1">Thomas Speed</rs>
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to carry the Poor<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Basket bottle<lb></lb>
now produced to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo795">Swan at Holborn Bridge</rs>
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going there at<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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New Gate Street he Put his<lb></lb>
Load upon a Pitching Block,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
That a person<lb></lb>
came up to him and asked to go with him to a Public House<lb></lb>
near and have a Print of Bear which Informant declined<lb></lb>
that during the time he was speaking he turned his Back<lb></lb>
to the Parcell during which true the Prisoner Indian Sanders <lb></lb>
took it up and was of one away with it as Informant apprehends<lb></lb>
That Informant upon informing it man towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo797">old New gate</rs>
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but not seenig any thing of his parcel he returned towards<lb></lb>
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and in Basino Court met with the Prisoner in<lb></lb>
Company with other the say person who spoke to Informant at<lb></lb>
the Picking Block with the Parcel on his Back, that he there upon<lb></lb>
laid hold of him and secured the Box. That Prisoner escaped from<lb></lb>
him whereupon Informant sayed out stop theif and pursued</p>
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