John Ballard Lloyd a native of Liverpool. In 1823 he was appointed a midshipman aboard the East India trade ship Castle Huntly, Captain Drummond, and entered on board of that vessel on January 17, 1824, and, having completed one voyage, he finally left that service on the 26 April 1825. Some time after he left the East India Company’s service, he went to reside with his mother and his stepfather, who then lived in Nelson Square; he afterwards resided some time with his uncle, a Mr Lloyd of Norwood; we afterwards find him residing near Whitechapel with a Mr Lloyd, perhaps the same uncle; we then find him a lodger at the Red or Golden Lion, Camberwell, as a private gentleman, and soon after we find him residing at Mitcham as a private gentleman; there in the year 1826 he got acquainted with Miss Eliza Vaughan, the only child of Mr George Vaughan, carrying a business as a baker and general shop keeper; he decoyed the daughter , then about sixteen years of age, from a stage coach, and after living with her about eight or nine months, was, about April, 1827, married to her at Cheme Church; some time after Mr Vaughan took a business in Battersea and after instructing Lloyd in the business at Mitcham he gave it up to Mr and Mrs Lloyd and went to reside in Battersea. In the year 1830, only about nine or ten months after he was put into the business at Mitcham, Lloyd failed , and went to live in Battersea with Mr Vaughan where he continued , as he states in his evidence, nearly five years: about June, 1833, his name was substituted on the shop at Battersea for the name of Vaughan, which till then had been on the shop; Lloyd then carried on the business at Battersea until October, 1835, when he gave up that business, and as he states in his evidence, took to the railroads, and went to live at County Terrace, New Kent Road, where he resided when he got into the employment of Richardson , to take assents and dissents of the proprietors on this line of railway. About the middle of April he says he went to live in Ligonier Street, a .....
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What does this word mean "he decoyed the daughter" other than the plain obvious. Except it was from a stagecoach.... 
Monica 
Added: de·coyed, de·coy·ing, de·coys: To lure or entrap by or as if by a decoy. Lordy, he kidnapped her!
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street the situation of which I have not been able to find,where he states he resided when
he went in the police force, which he did on the 16th April, where he continued only until
the 26th May,(bring a period of only 40 days),
when he quitted without notice; soon after he was engagedin setting up 'The single horse
safety carriage company', where he continued some time,but afterwards left that
establishment, and then went to live at 21 Wellington Terrace, near Waterloo Bridg, until
about september, when he , in company with another person, opened an office at no 42 Maiden
Lane, Covent Garden,as house agents, accountants and collectors of rent,and hiring servants;
there they paid one quarters rent,and,on the week preceding Lady-day last,sold off the goods and fixtures, and finally disapeared on the 19th March 1837.
After they were gone several persons called in Maiden lane expecting,as they said to recieve money, some of them having paid money to Lloyd under his promises of procuring situations. One young man says he had agreed to pay him (lloyd) 200l to procure him the situation of secretary to a cab company, which Lloyd pretended to be getting up in opposition to that which he had before estabished and the candidate for office states he actually paid him 50l in part of that suma little before he disapeared.
So much for the respectability of this useful witness.
