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<p n="426"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo304">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n426-1">George Murphy</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo305">Crown Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo306">Bow<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo307">Covent Garden</rs>
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Chairman, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n426-2">Samuel White</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
Grosvenor Mews Grosvenor Square <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ103">Chairman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n426-5">Thomas<lb></lb>
Adams</rs>
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of Vine Street near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo308">Chandois Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ104">Labourer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 23rd.. day of January 1782</p>
<p n="427">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n427-1">George Murphy</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that last Night about<obscured></obscured>
ding at the<lb></lb>
Door of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo309">Opera House</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo310">the Haymarket</rs>
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That he saw Baron<lb></lb>
Kutrleben come from out of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo311">the Passage</rs>
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in Company with two Ladies<lb></lb>
That when he came on the outside of the Door a Confusion arose<lb></lb>
by the Coachmen drising their Horses against<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
each otherThat he<lb></lb>
perceived a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n427-2">Lucius Hughes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
standing rather behind the said Bar on Kutrleben and at the same time<lb></lb>
saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n427-3">Lucius Hughes</rs>
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's Hand at the Fob of the Breeches of the Baron<lb></lb>
That the Baron immediately called out he had lost<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his Watch<lb></lb>
and this Informant observed the said Hughes endeavouring to put the<lb></lb>
Watch into his BreechesThat he then told the Baron that the said<lb></lb>
Hughes was the Man who had his WatchThat he took the said<lb></lb>
Hughes into Custody and delivered him to Mr. Miles a Constable<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n427-4">Samuel White</rs>
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says that he was standing at the Door of the<lb></lb>
Oper a House at the same time the said Murphy was thereThat<lb></lb>
he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
heard the said Baron Kutreben call out he had lost his Watch<lb></lb>
and at the same time observed a Watch in the Hand of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n427-5">Lucuis Hughes</rs>
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who was endeavouring to put it into his Breeches<lb></lb>
That he seized hold of said Hughes, when he perceived a Watch<lb></lb>
Case lying upon the PavementThat he then called out that the<lb></lb>
Watch Case laid there and he saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n427-6">Thomas Adams</rs>
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pick<lb></lb>
it up and deliver it to one of the Ladies who was in Company<lb></lb>
with the Baron<del>and</del>
in a Coach at the Opera Door which induced<lb></lb>
him at that time to think that the Ladys Pocket had been picked</p>
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