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The joint and several Information of George
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Brucker the younger of Distaff Lane, London, Sugar Baker, James
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Draper,
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to Mr.Thomas Neat peace of the Cheshurst in Her Fordshire
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who being Oath severally says
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And the said
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for himself saith, that
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he was on Friday Evening, last about Eight O'Clock, sitting in his
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's Compting House when he heard the Cry of Stop
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TheifInformant immediately went out into the Street,
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and he saw the Prisoner now under Examination William
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Coombs running down Distaff Lane, towards Faith Street
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Informant run after him, and overtook him, but the
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Prisoner himself crying out stop thief, Informant
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did not suppose him to be a Criminal, and therefore did
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not offer to secure himInformant, when he got into
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Faith Street asked the Prisoner which way the theif
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was gone, and he said to the right but into sd. of
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going himself to the right which led towards Doctors
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Commons he run across Fish Street into Labour in
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then thought the Prisoner was the Thief, and
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pursued him down Labour in Vain Hill, near the
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bottom of which he apprehended himAnd the
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For himself saith, that on Friday
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Evening last about Eight O'Clock, he saw the
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, get behind the Bath
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and Bristol Stage Coach, which then stood at the
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, and take
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the Trunk or Caravan out of the Basket, and in
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endeavoring to clear it fromt he basket the Prisoner
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Fell down together with the Trunk The Prisoner
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afterwards Stooped to take the Trunk off the
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Ground, and was going away with it, when Informant
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came up and stopt himAnother Person interfored
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and rescued the Prisoner out of Infomant's Custody
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upon which the Prisoner run away toward Distaff
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Lane And the said
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for himself
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saith, that he was standing at his own door on
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Friday Evening last about Eight O'Clock, when
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the Prisoner run by and called out stop Thief,
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which occasioned Informant not to lay hold of him
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