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I am coachman to the Bishop of Peterborough, he lost his great coat, value twenty shillings, on the 9th of June last, about twenty minutes before one, the two prisoners took it, I caught the coat on the prisoner Burly; it was upon the coach box at the Bishop's door in
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, I was just got off my box, and when I came out my coat was gone, and a man told me them two boys had taken it: one of the prisoners said nothing, and the other said he knew nothing of the matter, they were both running away, I believe they were sensible that I was pursuing them.
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Prisoner Burley. A man run and dropped the coat, and I picked it up.
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.
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