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me this 13th.. day of December 1781
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Who being upon Oath say, and first the said
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says, that about 8 oClock in the Evening of last Tuesday was a
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Week, his one pair of stairs back Room was opened and Two Watches,
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two Mourning Rings, two silver Punch Ladlerthe silver Lid of a
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Tankard the plated did of a Tankard & about twenty pounds in Money
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was stolen thereoutAnd the said
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8 oClock in the said Evening of Tuesday was a Week, as she was
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going for some Butter (which was in a Cupboard was the bottom of
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the Stairs leading up to the said one pair of Stairs back Room) she
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coming down the Stairs into
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Daniel
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on coming into the said Passage Pulled his Hat over his
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, and
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as soon as he came to the Step of the Street Door, he called out
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"Hem"That on Account of the suspicions Situation in which she
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Daniel Murphy
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and thinking be had Robbed her
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said Masters Houseshe immediately went to her Mistress and asked
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her if she had Pad locked her Door, as she had just seen a Man come
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down the StairsThat her said Mistress denied her to go up and see
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if the Door was fast or not, and
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went with This Informant past
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of the way up Stairsthat on this Informants lifting up the Latch
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of the Door, the Door opened, and she found the Room had been
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