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The Information of
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John Atkins
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taken
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before me this first Day of October 1783.
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Who on their Oath say, and first the said Sarah Overy says that
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she is Servant to
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Mary Smithers
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of Holborn
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Hosier
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- That on Thursday
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Evening last about half an hour past 5 o'Clock, as this Informant
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was going up her Mistresses Staircase into the Dining room,
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she same a Man on the Stair case who asked her "if Mr. Thompson
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lived there" and upon this Informant replying in the nagative he
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ran down stairs, immediately upon which a Person now present
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who calls himself
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Thomas Brown
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came out of the Dinning room
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and attempted to run down stairs also, when this Informant
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laid hold of his Waistcoat and cried out "Stop Thief", Whereupon
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said Brown turned round damned her for a Bitch and asked
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her "what she meant by that" this Informant replied that "He
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had got the Salts out of the Dining room" when said Brown Struck
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her three times with a Stick in a violent manner and then
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ran down stairs And the said
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Samuel Reeves
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Jays that he
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is in partnership with said
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that upon hearing
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said Sarah Overy cry out, he ran upstairs and out into
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and from thence into
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, where he observed
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running, and upon this Informant crying
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out "Stop Thief" said Brown stopped and asked this Informant
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"What was the Matter" when this Informant laid hold of him and
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whilst a Mr. Redhead held him, this Informant Searched him, and
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in his Coat pockets found the two silver salts, one table spoon
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and a cream jug now produced, the property of said
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And the said
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says that he was in
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Grays Inn
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at this time, and upon seeing said Brown resisting against
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said
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Saml. Reeves
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, he laid hold of said Brown, and as they
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