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<p n="2975"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westr<lb></lb>
to<lb></lb>
Wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2975-1">Mary Parker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2975-2">Charles<lb></lb>
Harwood</rs>
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& John<obscured></obscured>
taken before me this<lb></lb>
Fourth day of November 1789</p>
<p n="2976">Who being on Oath says & first<lb></lb>
Iron Parker says that she in Shop keeper in Five Field<lb></lb>
Row Chelsea that on Friday last between Twelve & One<lb></lb>
o Clock at Noon she was in his Kitchen under her Shop<lb></lb>
that having somebody go out of her Shop she lookd up<lb></lb>
<del>the</del>
through the Kitchen Window & saw a Man which<lb></lb>
she believes to be Prisoner who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2976-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Essex</rs>
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go down the Shop Steps that she immediately pur-<lb></lb>
sued him and saw him running in the next Street<lb></lb>
where he was Slept that this Infort saw some Shoes taking<lb></lb>
from his Coat Pockett that she saw in the hands of ye<lb></lb>
Man that went out of her shop a parcell that ap-<lb></lb>
pear'd the Silk handkerchief that this Infort. was<lb></lb>
Robb'd of severall Articles sd time & that the Silk hand-<lb></lb>
kerchief now produced are part of the property she lost<lb></lb>
Markd by her & that she has no doubt at all of the<lb></lb>
Linnen handkerchief & Stairs now produced being her pro-<lb></lb>
party that one the Child Shoes now produced this Infort saw<lb></lb>
taken from The prisoner and that the follow to the<lb></lb>
Said Shoes this Infort found in her Shop since</p>
<p n="2977"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2977-1">Mary Parker</rs>
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</p>
<p n="2978"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2978-1">Charles Harwood</rs>
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on Oath Says that<lb></lb>
he saw the prisoner running in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1939">Queen Street</rs>
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Chelsea last Friday between the hours<lb></lb>
of Twelve & one that hearing the Cry of Stop thief he ran<lb></lb>
after him that the prisoners had some handkerchiefs in his<lb></lb>
hand that this prisoner turning a Corner into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1940">Clifford Row</rs>
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<lb></lb>
this Infort lost sight of him a few Seconds but soon Paid<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
old of him that he saw soone handkerchief hanging<lb></lb>
on some Nails on Clifford raw & some handkerchiefs with<lb></lb>
in a saw Yards of where he last the Prisoner on the Ground<lb></lb>
that this Infort saw some Children Shoes taking out of<lb></lb>
the prisoners pockett<del>who</del>
sd that the Said things<obscured></obscured>
were given</p>
<p n="2979"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2979-1">Chas. Harwood</rs>
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</p>
<p n="2980"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2980-1">John Pilts</rs>
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oath says that he took<lb></lb>
from the prisoner Three pair of shoes out of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1941">his<lb></lb>
Breeches</rs>
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(now produced) near Mary Parkers</p>
<p n="2981">Sworn the 4th Day of Novr.<lb></lb>
1789.</p>
<p n="2982"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2982-1">Robt Abington</rs>
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</p>
<p n="2983"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2983-1">John Pitts</rs>
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