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JOHN STEWARD <interp inst="t17770115-9-defend140" type="surname" value="STEWARD"></interp>
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stealing two linen shirts, value 5 s. two muslin neckcloths, value 2 s. and a linen-sheet, value 2 s. </rs>
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Samuel Wilcox <interp inst="t17770115-9-victim142" type="surname" value="Wilcox"></interp>
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<p>'The things mentioned in the indictment</p>
<p>'were stolen out of the house of the prosecutor</p>
<p>'by two men, who were seen in the</p>
<p>'house by a girl who was gathering in alehouse</p>
<p>'pots; she said, she believed the prisoner</p>
<p>'to be one of those men; but it appeared</p>
<p>'upon the evidence for the prisoner</p>
<p>'that the girl was mistaken in the person.'</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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