Related for Chagigah 51:5
<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> הגבאין שנכנסו לתוך הבית וכן הגנבים שהחזירו את הכלים נאמנין לומר לא נגענו ובירושלים נאמנין על הקודש ובשעת הרגל אף על התרומה:
Mishnah: Tax collectors who entered the house, and so too thieves who returned the vessels [they had stolen], they are trusted [when the say], "We did not touch [the items];" and in Jerusalem, they are trusted regarding holy things [despite their stringency]; and during the festival, [they are trusted] even regarding <i>Terumah</i>.
Tosefta Chagigah
If tax collectors entered a house and wrote on the outside [that] everything that is in the house is [ritually] pure, they are believed as to the purity of [articles involved in] the purification rite [of the red heifer], but they are not believed about the purity of Terumah, and in Jerusalem they are believed as to the purity of all the consecrated utensils but not about Terumah, and during the season of the pilgrimmage festival, [they are even believed] about Terumah. One who buys utensils from am ha'aretz skilled craftspersons, and one who sells utensils to am ha'aretz skilled craftspersons are believed about the purity of [articles involved in] the purification rite, but are not believed about the purity of Terumah.
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