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<p n="580"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo387">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n580-1">Thomas Hawkins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of No.6 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo388">King Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo389">Seven Dials</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ125">Coachmaker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date121">29th. day of January 1787.</rs>
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<p n="581">Who being on oath Saith that as he was<lb></lb>
standing in the one Shilling Gallery in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo390">Covent<lb></lb>
Garden</rs>
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Theatre on Saturday Night he felt the<lb></lb>
Hand of somebody in his Right Hand Breeches<lb></lb>
Pocket that the Person now present Who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n581-1">George Brace</rs>
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at the same time was<lb></lb>
crushing upon him That knowing he had nothing<lb></lb>
in that Pocket he desired him to get at a greater<lb></lb>
distance that he soon after felt a second attempt<lb></lb>
at his left Hand Pocket That he immediately put<lb></lb>
his our Hand down and found his Breeches Pocket<lb></lb>
turn'd inside out and his Money gone when he seized the Prisoner and<lb></lb>
accused him with having pick'd his Pocket And<lb></lb>
this Deponent further says that being informed by<lb></lb>
some of the Company that they heard the Chink of<lb></lb>
the Money fall upon the ground and as soon as<lb></lb>
the play was over he returned to the Gallery and<lb></lb>
upon the very spot where the Prisoner and this<lb></lb>
Informant stood he found all his Money except<lb></lb>
one halfpenny that had been taken out of his said<lb></lb>
Pocket and that he verily believes the Prisoner<lb></lb>
was the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo391">Powon</rs>
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who feloniously stole his Money as<lb></lb>
aforesaid.</p>
<p n="582">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date122">29th. day of January 1787</rs>
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<p n="583">W Addington</p>
<p n="584"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n584-1">Thos Hockings</rs>
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