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was indicted for
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stealing, upon the
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16th of January
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, one hempen bag, value and fifty six pound weight of iron nails value 30 s.
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the goods of
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Ebenezer Johnstone deposed, he had sent a cart load of nails to
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, to be put on board a vessel bound for Deal, and he lost a bag containing fifty-six pound weight.
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Mr. Duncombe. A custom-house officer detected the prisoner with the nails, and asked him how he came by them, he told him a sailor had sold them to him for two gallons of rum, (the bill of parcels found in the bag was deposed to by Johnstone.)
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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A man desired me to carry the bag of nails for him, and was to give him six-pence and a pint of beer.
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To be publicly whipped one hundred yards, near Smart's Quay
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Tried by the First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice BULLER.
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