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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n206-1">Benjamin Bayless</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo139">Rolls Buildings<lb></lb>
Fetter Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo140">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ61">Land lord</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo141">Kings Arms Alehouse</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n206-2">Margaret Cameron</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ62">Servant</rs>
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to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n206-3">Benjamin Bayless</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 13th.. day of December 1781</p>
<p n="207">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n207-1">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Bayless</rs>
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says, that about 8 oClock in the Evening of last Tuesday was a <lb></lb>
Week, his one pair of stairs back Room was opened and Two Watches,<lb></lb>
two Mourning Rings, two silver Punch Ladlerthe silver Lid of a<lb></lb>
Tankard the plated did of a Tankard & about twenty pounds in Money<lb></lb>
was stolen thereoutAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n207-2">Margaret Cameron</rs>
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says that about<lb></lb>
8 oClock in the said Evening of Tuesday was a Week, as she was<lb></lb>
going for some Butter (which was in a Cupboard was the bottom of<lb></lb>
the Stairs leading up to the said one pair of Stairs back Room) she<lb></lb>
Perceived a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n207-3">Daniel Murphy</rs>
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,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
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coming down the Stairs into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo142">the Passage</rs>
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That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n207-4">Daniel<lb></lb>
Murphy</rs>
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on coming into the said Passage Pulled his Hat over his<lb></lb>
Eyes and buttoned his Great Coat as he went along <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo143">the Passage</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
as soon as he came to the Step of the Street Door, he called out<lb></lb>
"Hem"That on Account of the suspicions Situation in which she<lb></lb>
had seen the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n207-5">Daniel Murphy</rs>
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and thinking be had Robbed her<lb></lb>
said Masters Houseshe immediately went to her Mistress and asked<lb></lb>
her if she had Pad locked her Door, as she had just seen a Man come<lb></lb>
down the StairsThat her said Mistress denied her to go up and see<lb></lb>
if the Door was fast or not, and<del>she</del>
went with This Informant past<lb></lb>
of the way up Stairsthat on this Informants lifting up the Latch<lb></lb>
of the Door, the Door opened, and she found the Room had been</p>
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