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The Information of
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taken before me this 26th: day of January 1781
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Who being Upon Oath says that on Wednesday Evening last
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she got into the Hackney Coach No. 758 drove by a person now present
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who calls himself
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Court in Saint
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Pauls Church Yard-The before she got into his Coach she
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desired
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him to assist in putting
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her Chest containing a Quantity of Wearing
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Appaul into his said Coach, which he did and put her said Box
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into the same-That she then desired him to desire her to
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and on her coming to her Master house in
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she got
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out of said Coach (at which time the said
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Henry Abel
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was got from
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off his Coach Box) and was standing by the side of his said Coach
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says that she went into
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of her said Master House
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(leasing her Box in the said Coach) and as she verily believes both
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the Coach Doors shut, and did not contain above two Minutes
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in
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of the House-That she returned to the Coach with
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intention of having her Box taken out and put into her Master house
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and saw the said
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Still standing by the side of his
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said Coach and on her looking into the Coach found that the said
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Box was Stolen away-Says that from her hasing left the Coachman
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Standing by this Coach, and on her return finding him in the same
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situation and her having staid so short a time in her said
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Masters hourd, that the said Abel must have seen the person who
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Stole the same, as well as from other Circumstances she doth
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verily believe and suspect that he the said Abel feloniously
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Stole her said Box of Wearing Appeal
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Sworn before me this
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26th. day of Jany. 1781}
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W Addington
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her
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Crorsdis
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Mark
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