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<p n="3481"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2365">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3481-1">Joseph Laver</rs>
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of Three<lb></lb>
Colt Street in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2366">Saint Ann Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ840">Gardener</rs>
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Taken this first day of October 1784<lb></lb>
before us two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ841">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Dean</rs>
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in and for the said County.</p>
<p n="3482">Who being on his Oath saith that having heard<lb></lb>
of many Robberies being Committed in between <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2367">Blackwall</rs>
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and Stepney he in Company with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3482-1">John Jones</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3482-2">John<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3482-3">Robert Smith</rs>
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on the Thursday the Twenty<lb></lb>
third day of September last past went from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2368">Limehouse</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to Stepney Armed with Intent to apprehended or to<lb></lb>
do all in their powers to cause to he apprehended such<lb></lb>
persons who had Committed the said Robberies.</p>
<p n="3483">That nothing happened on their going to Stepney<lb></lb>
but when there they got into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2369">Limehouse</rs>
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Stage Coach<lb></lb>
and on their return from Stepney to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2370">Limehouse</rs>
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about<lb></lb>
the Midway of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3483-1">Salmons Lane</rs>
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he heard a man hall<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
but could not tell What he sayed. when the Coach<lb></lb>
Immediately Stopped and a man came up to the side<lb></lb>
of the Coach when this Informant was who perceiving<lb></lb>
him to have a Blunderbuss dropt down and went<lb></lb>
behind the wheel of the Coach when they all four<lb></lb>
got out of the CoachThat Informant then pursued<lb></lb>
one of Man but it being dark and he running faster<lb></lb>
then this Informant he got away, but sayth that<lb></lb>
he perceived <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3483-2">John Jones</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3483-3">John Smith</rs>
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to follows<lb></lb>
another man (and which man was the person as he believes who came up to he side<lb></lb>
of the Coach as he has before described) who after<lb></lb>
running about Twenty Yards fell down and was<lb></lb>
secured by said Jones and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3483-4">John Smith</rs>
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,- And this</p>
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