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<p n="256"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo166">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n256-1">Robert Tate</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ35">Shopman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to Messrs Jefferies and Jones of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo167">Cockspur<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ36">Jewellers</rs>
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taken before this Smith<lb></lb>
Day of May 1789</p>
<p n="257">Who being upon Oath saith that a person now present who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n257-1">Edward Tapp</rs>
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came to the Shop of Messrs. Jefferies<lb></lb>
and Jones <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ37">Jewellers</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo168">Cockspur Street</rs>
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about Six o' Clock<lb></lb>
last Night, and desired to select some Diamond for Ear-Rings,<lb></lb>
that a Cabinet of Diamond was produced to the prisoner<lb></lb>
by Mr Jones, who took out three or more Drawers there from<lb></lb>
containing Diamonds, and this Informant Stood by at the Time<lb></lb>
the Drawers were taken outthat the prisoner selected<lb></lb>
Several Diamond from the Drawers and put them upon<lb></lb>
the Counter, and the Drawers were then replaced in the<lb></lb>
CabinetAnd this Informant further says that he saw<lb></lb>
the said Tapp take one of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo169">the Diamonds</rs>
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which lay on<lb></lb>
the Counter, with a Pair of Corn Tongs which he held in<lb></lb>
his right Hand and with his left hand took the Diamond<lb></lb>
from the Tongs and put it into the left hand pocket of<lb></lb>
his WaistcoatInformant then acquainted Mr. Jones<lb></lb>
with the Circumstance, who thereupon accused the Prisoner with<lb></lb>
having the Diamond in his possession,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
which the prisoner<lb></lb>
denied, but upon Informant telling Mr. Jones that the<lb></lb>
Diamond then was in prisoner's pocket, the Prisoner took<lb></lb>
the Diamond from his said pocket laid it upon the Counter and<lb></lb>
said "there it is"and that that the Diamond now produced is the same which<lb></lb>
the prisoner he so delivered</p>
<p n="258">Sworn the Day and Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid</p>
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<p n="260"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n260-1">Robert Tate</rs>
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