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The Information of
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Coachman No. 714
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Servant in that Capacity to Mr
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Coach master
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taken upon Oath this 21st Day of May 1768 before me one of his
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Majesty's
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in and for the said County.
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This Informant being upon his Oath as aforesaid Saith That last Night being Friday
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night about ½ past 11 he Came home with the Coach he had been driving, and unharnessed
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his Horses, & hung up the Harness on a hook a little way within the Stable Door, and
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when he had so done he locked the Stable Door & went home to his Lodgings.- On the
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Morrow Morning being Saturday this Day the 21st May about 7 o'Clock he went again
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into the Stable to feed & dress his Masters Horses, and after having cleaned & Washed
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the Coach he was Employed to drive. He then went to look for his Harness in order
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to Clean them likewise, and on his Searching the Hook on Which he had hang them
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the Night before in the Stabb he did not find them, As they had been taken away, Then he
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enquired of all his fellow Servants (
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) in the yard, to be informed whether
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they knew what was become of his Harness, They All replied to the Effect that they
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had none of them seen any thing of the said
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and on his further enquiry after
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his Harness he was told by one
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George Attwood
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who is a
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to the said Mr
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Atkinson that the saw the Watchman stop a Man last Night or Early this Morning
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with a pair of Harness on his back, Upon which the said
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acquainted
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his Mistress Mrs. Atkinson with it, who ordered him to go to the Watchhouse to fee
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if the harness were there and the Man in Custody, which he accordingly did, And
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he saw the harness he had left in the said Watchhouse and also the Man who
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was apprehended by the Watchman with the said Harness upon his Back, and
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the said Harness being now produced before me, The said
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positively and
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upon his Oath declares it to be the very identical Harness which he had so less
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& which belongs to his said Master Mr Atkinson and which was feloniously stole
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out of the said Stable.
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Sworn before me the 21st day of
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May 1768.
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