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Grosvenor Mews Grosvenor Square
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of Vine Street near
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taken before me this 23rd.. day of January 1782
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George Murphy
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That he saw Baron
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Kutrleben come from out of
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in Company with two Ladies
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by the Coachmen drising their Horses against
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each otherThat he
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perceived a person now present who calls himself
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standing rather behind the said Bar on Kutrleben and at the same time
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's Hand at the Fob of the Breeches of the Baron
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his Watch
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and this Informant observed the said Hughes endeavouring to put the
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Watch into his BreechesThat he then told the Baron that the said
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Hughes was the Man who had his WatchThat he took the said
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Hughes into Custody and delivered him to Mr. Miles a Constable
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he
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and at the same time observed a Watch in the Hand of the said
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who was endeavouring to put it into his Breeches
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That he seized hold of said Hughes, when he perceived a Watch
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Case lying upon the PavementThat he then called out that the
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Watch Case laid there and he saw the said
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pick
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it up and deliver it to one of the Ladies who was in Company
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with the Baron
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in a Coach at the Opera Door which induced
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him at that time to think that the Ladys Pocket had been picked
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