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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing on the
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3d of December
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last, two pair of linen sheets, value 4 s. one cloth cloak, value 6 s. one coat, value 2 s. one great coat, value 6 s. two linen bed curtains, value 2 s.
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The witnesses examined apart at the request of the prisoner.
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I caught the prisoner in my room, I seized him by the collar, he gave me a violent push in my stomach, and pushed me on one side and run out, but stumbled over the step; I cried out stop thief! and he was stopped in about a hundred yards, and I saw the prisoner drop the things mentioned in the indictment, and other things.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I was coming down Long-Acre, it was very dark, and a man run by me, and they came and took me.
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Prosecutor. The prisoner was never out of my sight.
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Transported for seven years
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Court to Prisoner. Your own conscience will tell you what I am informed of, that you have been here three times before.
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Prisoner. I never was, my Lord.
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Court. You have been in imprisonment and have broke prison, therefore make a particular memorandum, that it may be reported specially to the King, that he may be transported seven years to the coast of Africa, among the Blacks.
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr.
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