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, was indicted for that he <rs id="t17500711-10-off40" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17500711-10-off40" type="offenceCategory" value="violentTheft"></interp>
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did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life; one metal watch, value 40 s. one pair of silver-buckles, value 5 s. against the will of the said George, from his person did steal, take, and carry away </rs>
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. On the 24th of June last, about one in the morning, I was going up <rs type="placeName" id="t17500711-10-crimeloc42">Chancery-lane</rs>
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, in order to go in at Lincoln's Inn gate; just as I got opposite to the gate, I was surrounded by four men; one of them is here to give evidence; he put a pistol to my face, and bid me stop; they got me up with my back against the houses, and bid me deliver my money; the prisoner at the bar, as I believe him to be the man, stooped down and took my buckles out of my shoes.</p>
<p>Q. Was it a light night?</p>
<p>Powell. It was a darkish sort of a night.</p>
<p>Q. By what do you believe the prisoner to be one in company?</p>
<p>Powell. By his shape and size; not that I can tell him by his face; I believe him to be in the same coat he has on now; he then risled my breeches-pockets, and took out my watch, a pinchbeck metal one, and shagreen case, with an enamel'd dial-plate ; the other stood by; the man that held the pistol ask'd him what he had got; he made answer, his Lodge; then away they went together. I do not swear positively to the prisoner.</p>
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. On Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, we went out taking a walk.</p>
<p>Q. Who do you mean by we?</p>
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, and myself; we made a bargain to go out a robbing about Chancery-lane; the prisoner (Chamberlain) agreed, and took a mop-stick at the same time, and cut it in two; he gave one half to <rs type="persName" id="t17500711-10-person106"> <interp inst="t17500711-10-person106" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, and the other he kept himself; this was at his lodging, a house that harbours all whores and thieves; first we went down to Fleetditch side, then to Chancery-lane. I went up to this gentleman, and put the pistol to his head; it was better than an hour and half from our first setting out to the time we stopp'd him; we had been drinking about from gin-shop to gin-shop.</p>
<p>Q. Whereabouts in Chancery-lane did you meet the prosecutor?</p>
<p>Omit. It was almost opposite the gate; the gentleman knew me, and I knew him again as soon as I saw him at Justice Fielding's.</p>
<p>Q. Give us an account of this Robbery.</p>
<p>Omit. I clapp'd him up against a house, and Chamberlain flung his stick down by the side of the gentleman. After I had clapp'd a pistol to his head, he took the buckles out of his shoes, and after that his watch from his pocket. I ask'd him what he had got; he said his Lodge, meaning his watch. The gentleman proffer'd me some halfpence, and I returned them to him again from out of my hand; then we went one way and he another; we went towards Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, then towards Fleet-market, then to Duke's-place; there we drank. The prisoner sold the watch the next morning to a Jew. The Jew's name is <rs type="persName" id="t17500711-10-person107"> <interp inst="t17500711-10-person107" type="role" value=""></interp>
Alexander Minous <interp inst="t17500711-10-person107" type="surname" value="Minous"></interp>
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; we were all four together when it was sold.</p>
<p>Q. What was it sold for?</p>
<p>Omit. It was sold for 25 s.</p>
<p>Q. to Prosecutor. Did you see the person who took the buckles out of your shoes lay something down out of his hand at that time?</p>
<p>Prosecutor. He laid something down, I thought it was a hanger.</p>
<p>Q. Did you deliver this witness some halfpence which he returned again?</p>
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Prosecutor. He bid me deliver my money ; I delivered him some halfpence into his hand, and he returned them to me again.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence. I never was guilty of any such thing in my life. This Omit is a cruel man to say so much as he has done against me.</p>
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Guilty </rs>
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death </rs>
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<p>See No. 371 in the last Sessions-book.</p>
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