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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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instant, one wooden tub, value 1 d. and 12 lb. weight of salt butter, value 5 s.
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the goods of
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I live in
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, my wife keeps a chandler's shop, I
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; I think it was on the 8th instant, I lost part of a tub of butter, I think the value at the least was five shillings; I was in the back room, and I heard the door bell ring, and my little boy who was in the shop, said a man had come into the shop and taken a tub of butter, and I ran into Carey-street, and saw the prisoner with the tub of butter under his arm, I took hold both of the tub and the prisoner; at that instant, Mr. Armstrong, and his man came up, and the prisoner ran away; and Mr. Armstrong's man pursued and took him.
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Court. Was there any particular mark on this tub, that you can distingush it by as your own? - I should not have known the tub, only by a knife that was sticking
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in the butter, which I have in my pocket which is my knife.
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(The knife produced.)
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I am assistant to Mr. Armstrong, the last witness cried out stop thief! Mr. Armstrong and I had been arresting a gentleman for about 200 l. and we were coming home with the gentleman; the prosecutor cried stop thief! and I went after him, and took him, he was not out of sight, nor above thirty yards off; when I brought him back, he had got the butter under his arm, and the knife stuck in it, I am sure it is the prisoner; I believe the prisoner's friends gave the prosecutor some money to make it up.
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Court. I hope you have got nothing for it? - No, my Lord.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I was coming home last Saturday night was fortnight, and it began to rain, and I ran very fast, and that gentleman knocked me down, and said, you have got a tub of butter, I said I had not; and they took me before a Justice, and I was committed; and the prosecutor came and asked me if I had any friends, I said yes; and he said, if I could get any thing from them, I would settle the affair; and he went to them, and got half a guinea, and signed a note, here is a receipt for ten shillings.
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Prosecutor. I know nothing of the law, and two men came to me, and took me to a publick house, and said I could bail the prisoner if I pleased; I said, I had no objection if the Justice pleased; I was over persuaded, but did not know any thing of the affair.
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Court to Jury. Suppose this amounts to compounding of felony, and to be a crime in the prosecutor, that is nothing at all to the crime committed by the prisoner; and with respect to
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, there is no infinuation, that any thing had been offered to him, or accepted by him.
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Transported for seven years
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GOULD.
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