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The Information of
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taken before me this
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1st day of June 1774
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Who being upon Oath says that on Saturday Evening the 21st.
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now
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John Rann
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came to the said Catherine Smith's in a Coach
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with Boots on , that the said John Rann and the said Catherine
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Smith went into the said Catherine Smith's Bed Room together,
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that some little Time afterwards the same Evening the said Catherine
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Smith told this Informant that the said John Rann had given her
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five Guineas in Money and a Watch, that the next Morning the
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said Catherine Smith shewed
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this Informant a Silver Watch in a
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black Shagreen Case now produced and told her that was the
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Watch that the said John Rann had given her over night, that
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on the Monday Evening following some Officers came to search
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the said Catherine Smiths' Apartments at which time the said
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Catherine Smith had the said Watch by her side, that the said
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Catherine Smith gave the said Watch to this Informant and She
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put it under the Cover of a Chair, that on Wednesday last the
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said Catherine Smith's Servant Margaret delivered the said Watch
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to this Informant who carried it to Mr. Allam the Watchmaker,
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and this Informant further says that on the above mentioned
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Saturday the said Catherine Smith told this Informant that
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the said John Rann
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was gone out to rob on the
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Highway and that she expected him home with some Money
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Sworn before me
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June 1 1774}
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Sampn Wright
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Eleanor
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