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Wood and his father
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had Seen two men throw a Bundle into the empty house
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he waited and was at the taken of them and went to the
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place and saw the lead produced tyed up in the Apron
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produced
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Bundle had been chucked into the empty house by the
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Two prisoners in their hearing being in Custody that he
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took said Bundle out of the said house containing the
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Three pieces of lead produced which he has kept possession
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ever since
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lead produced he has measured the Gutter belonging to a
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house of Mr. Andrew Burt and found it to correspond
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Mr Burts in
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on Tuesday afternoon
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last the lead of a Gutter on the said
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house was safeThat about the hour of Two on Wednesday
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morning he was claimed by a Watchman there were thieves
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stealing the lead and found about the hour of Six the same morning
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The dead was gone and has not doubt the lead produced is the same lead
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