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; I had been out, coming home about one o'clock in the day, I saw the prisoner at the bar walking about my door, looking hard into my shop; as I came near, I saw him go in; he took one piece of Saxon green damask, he put it into his apron, and ran away with it; I ran round a cart and took hold on him, I brought him back to my shop, with the goods upon him.
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[Transportation. See summary.]
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