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was indicted for
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Upon Friday the 6th of December, in the evening, going up
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, I felt something pull at my pocket, I turned round immediately and saw the prisoner with my handkerchief; he dropped it; I secured him and took up the handkerchief.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I did not throw down the handkerchief, it was another boy who run away.
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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