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last the Twenty third day of March instant at about the hour
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PrisonerTanner to be a person of bad Character having
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Mr. Bakers Sister who was then in the Shop with two Men
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buying some Meat that she this Informt. thought the
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House was being robbed backwards One of the two Men who was
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then in the Shop immediately Ran out and the other
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Day and Year first above
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