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The joint and several Informations of Joseph
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Norman, aged about twelve
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Years, who lives at No 1 in Fell Street aforesaid, and
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who hath been examined touching the Nature of an
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OathWho being on Oath severally say And
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First the said
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for himself saith, that on
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the thirteenth day of September Instant, about eleven
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O Clock in the Morning, he went to
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having
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First locked the door of his Apartment, and put the
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Key in his PocketSays, that he went into a Public
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where the Prisoner
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wasInformant and the Prisoner went together
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to the Apartment of the Former, in order to bargain
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about a hat that was in pawn, and in Presence of
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the Prisoner, Informant took a Guinea out of the
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Box now produced, and there remained three guineas
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in the Boxthen Informant and the Prisoner went
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back to the same Publick House, and Informant
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on a sudden missed the key of his Apartment out
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of his Pocket and he missed the three Guineas one of the BoxAnd the said
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Norman for himself saith, that between Five and
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six O'Clock of the said thirteenth day of September
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Instant in the Afternoon he was going by the door of the Apartment
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, and saw the Prisoner
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in the ApartmentInformant asked him what he
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the Prisoner said, that Collins sent
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him for a pair of old Shoes, and was waiting at
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the Publick House at the Cornerthe Prisoner
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bid Informant go of his Errand
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Taken and Sworn at
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21st Day of September
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1781
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John Hart
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