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on the Thursday the Twenty
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third day of September last past went from
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to Stepney Armed with Intent to apprehended or to
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persons who had Committed the said Robberies.
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he heard a man hall
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but could not tell What he sayed. when the Coach
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Immediately Stopped and a man came up to the side
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of the Coach when this Informant was who perceiving
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him to have a Blunderbuss dropt down and went
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behind the wheel of the Coach when they all four
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got out of the CoachThat Informant then pursued
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one of Man but it being dark and he running faster
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secured by said Jones and
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