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was indicted for
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stealing two linnen shirts, value 4 s. one linnen shift, value 2 s.
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Alexander Stephenson
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. I live in
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King-Street, Grosvenor-Square
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. On Wednesday the 22d of May I lost two shirts and a shift; they were hanging to dry in my yard; the prisoner was coming out at the door with them; I went to stop him, he let fall a bag, which he had put them in; I took up the bag, and found them, and a book in it. (Produced in court)
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Q. Are you sure they are your goods?
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Stephenson. They arethere is an S upon them: I pursued the prisoner, and took him.
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Q. from the prisoner. Is your name upon the shirts; shew it to the court?
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Stephenson. There is the mark (showing it.)
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Court. Is that hook a thing that can be made any good use of?
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Stephenson. It appears to be a butcher's hook.
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. I was up a setting out a post-chaisethe last witness called out stop thief: I stopped the prisoner, he fell on his knees, and begged for mercy, saying, it would ruin him, and he should strave in goal.
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Prisoner's Defence.
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I am took at a nonplus, so that I have nobody here to speak to my character; I have nothing to say.
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[Transportation. See summary.]
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