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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1170-1">Phineas Wordworth</rs>
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the Saracens Head Inn, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1201">Friday street</rs>
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,in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1202">City of London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ490">Book Keeper</rs>
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, taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1170-2">William Curtis</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ491">Esquire</rs>
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one of this<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said City Who,<lb></lb>
being upon Oath saith, that having at several different Times<lb></lb>
missed from his Depts in the Warehouse of the said Sun, sundry<lb></lb>
Sums of Money and having strong Suspicions that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1170-3">Robert Searle</rs>
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the Prisoner now under Examination, had taken them, he marked<lb></lb>
for several days all the Money deposited in his Desk says<lb></lb>
that this Morning about eight o'Clock he counted the Money and<lb></lb>
found there were thirty seven Guineas in Gold four half Crown<lb></lb>
Pieces, and twenty shillings in Silver in his said Desk says that<lb></lb>
in about ten Minutes the Prisoner went into the Warehouse with a<lb></lb>
Key that suspecting the Prisoner had stolen some of the Money, he<lb></lb>
went into the Warehouse about twenty Minutes after, when the<lb></lb>
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was come from thence, and went immediately to the Desk<lb></lb>
Says that he then counted again the Money so left in his Desk<lb></lb>
as aforesaid and missed one Guinea and an half Gown Piece says<lb></lb>
the instantly went to his Master <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1170-4">William Thompson</rs>
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and informed<lb></lb>
him of the Robbery Says that the Prisoner was apprehended and<lb></lb>
and upon him were found a Guinea and an half Crown<lb></lb>
and this Informant is satisfied that the said Guinea and half<lb></lb>
brown, so found upon the Prisoner, and which are now produced<lb></lb>
were Part of the Money left in his Depts, and he believes that the Prisoner<lb></lb>
feloniously took the same therefrom.</p>
<p n="1171">P Wordsworth</p>
<p n="1172">Taken and Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1203">Guildhall</rs>
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London this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15097_date180">16th September 1786</rs>
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<p n="1173"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1173-1">Wm Curtis</rs>
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