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May 1749

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not tell where his money was that there being two
Servants and a Girl they Bound them and left them
before then the man of the house went up Stairs and
Showed them into a Boom where there was a Box
and was taking the Key out of his pockett to open it
but Murphy wod not have Patiencebutso broke it
open and took thereout about £10 in Money and a
Gold Ring as Murphy Informed him they took away
with them some Linnen a Kam and some fire
arms and carry'd them all home (Excepting the fire
Arms which was theron into the River) to a house
he and Murphy had taken in Love Court Petty Coat
Lane where they Devided what they had got
amongst them

Says that about three months [..] agoe he this Exaianttogetherwith
agoethe said Doller [..] Wood and Murphy together with
Thomas Clark< no role > Andrew Fitzsymmons< no role > Anthony Nowland< no role >
and Ned Kenny< no role > and said Patt went to a Cow keepers
house adjoyning to Tottenham Court Road where little
Patt set the house for us and it was broak open and
we went in and broak open Chest of Drawers out
of which was taken some Silver but was prevented
taking anything else by a Gentle womans comeing
to the window which occationed us to blow out the
light and make of for fear of being Discovered

This Examinant further saith that the said
Dollar Johnson Murphys FitzSymmons together
with John Corker< no role > and Lewis Welch< no role > have comd
several Robberyes on Persons on Bow and Nile End
Roads as also in Stepney and frog fields from whom
they have taken their Money Hatts wiggs Shoebuckel [..]
and other things that they co'd make money of the
Particulars of which he cannot call to his Memory
Excepting one where a Man lost his life in Frog Feild by Crying
out Stop Theife Mollesting and fiteing them in Order
as they thought to take them which occationed the
said John Corker< no role > to strike him with a Drawn
Hanger in Order to make his Escape.




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