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<p n="2769"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2082">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2769-1">Sarah Overy</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2769-2">Samuel<lb></lb>
Reeves</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2769-3">Joseph Jackson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2769-4">John Atkins</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this first Day of October 1783.</p>
<p n="2770">Who on their Oath say, and first the said Sarah Overy says that<lb></lb>
she is Servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-1">Mary Smithers</rs>
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of Holborn <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ790">Hosier</rs>
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- That on Thursday<lb></lb>
Evening last about half an hour past 5 o'Clock, as this Informant<lb></lb>
was going up her Mistresses Staircase into the Dining room,<lb></lb>
she same a Man on the Stair case who asked her "if Mr. Thompson<lb></lb>
lived there" and upon this Informant replying in the nagative he<lb></lb>
ran down stairs, immediately upon which a Person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-2">Thomas Brown</rs>
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came out of the Dinning room<lb></lb>
and attempted to run down stairs also, when this Informant<lb></lb>
laid hold of his Waistcoat and cried out "Stop Thief", Whereupon<lb></lb>
said Brown turned round damned her for a Bitch and asked<lb></lb>
her "what she meant by that" this Informant replied that "He<lb></lb>
had got the Salts out of the Dining room" when said Brown Struck<lb></lb>
her three times with a Stick in a violent manner and then<lb></lb>
ran down stairs And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-3">Samuel Reeves</rs>
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Jays that he<lb></lb>
is in partnership with said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-4">Mary Smithers</rs>
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that upon hearing<lb></lb>
said Sarah Overy cry out, he ran upstairs and out into<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2083">Staples Inn</rs>
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and from thence into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2084">castle Yard</rs>
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, where he observed <lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-5">Thomas Brown</rs>
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running, and upon this Informant crying<lb></lb>
out "Stop Thief" said Brown stopped and asked this Informant<lb></lb>
"What was the Matter" when this Informant laid hold of him and<lb></lb>
whilst a Mr. Redhead held him, this Informant Searched him, and<lb></lb>
in his Coat pockets found the two silver salts, one table spoon<lb></lb>
and a cream jug now produced, the property of said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-6">Mary Smithers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-7">Joseph Jackson</rs>
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says that he was in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2085">Grays Inn<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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at this time, and upon seeing said Brown resisting against<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2770-8">Saml. Reeves</rs>
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, he laid hold of said Brown, and as they</p>
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