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stealing, on the <rs id="t17840526-125-cd557" type="crimeDate">7th day of May</rs>
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, twenty pounds weight of moist sugar, value 12 s. and seven pounds weight of currants, value 3 s. </rs>
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<p>Prisoner. I was in great necessity, I am fifty-five miles from home, and have six children, I am sixty-three years of age.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Whipped </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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