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The Joint and several Information of Harry
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Who being on Oath severally say, And First the
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for himself saith, that about Five
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under Examination,
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who had come into the Shop of the said Brother a
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little before, was proceeding out the shop, when
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Informant perceived something dragging From
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under the Petticoats of the said
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Mary
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Ann Mr. Dear
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Says, he suffered the Prisoner to go out of the
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Shop, and Followed herShe turned into a
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Publick House, a few doors From his Brother's
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shop, and Informant went after her, and seeing
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some part of the Muslin now Produced exposed
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under her Arm, and the other part concealed under
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the Cloak of the Priconer, he put the Cloak aside,
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and took the said Muslin form herInformant
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charged the Priconer with stealing the Muslin, and
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she said, the Child in her Arms had taken it out of
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the ShopInformant brought the Prisoner back
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into his brother's Shop, and charged her in Custody of
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Mr. Swan Borough says that the Muslin now
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produced is the property of his Brother, and of the
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for himself saith, that he heard the
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Prisoner when charged in Custody, beg for Mercy
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