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The Information of
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Joseph Capps
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taken before me this
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19th.
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Who being on Oath say and first the said
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Mary Morton
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came to his
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Masters Shop and bought two Handkerchiefs and a Quarter of
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a Yard of Flannel
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said Shop Informant Suspected
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she had taken something
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away with her; that he Informed his Master of his suspicious who
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immediately Ordered
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into the Street when Informant told her she had something more
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than her Own, that on bringing her back to the shop two pieces of
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Handkerchiefs now produced fell from her on the step of the
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door of his said Masters Shop and another piece of Handkerchief
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now produced Informant caught as they were falling from said
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Sworn before me this
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19th. day of January 1785.}
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Addington
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