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John Philont, alias <rs id="t17120910-43-alias-8" type="alias"> <join result="nameAlias" targOrder="Y" targets="t17120910-43-defend178 t17120910-43-alias-8"></join>
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, was indicted for that he, together with <rs type="persName" id="t17120910-43-person179"> <interp inst="t17120910-43-person179" type="role" value=""></interp>
Rodry Awdry <interp inst="t17120910-43-person179" type="surname" value="Awdry"></interp>
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, and another Boy, did on the <rs id="t17120910-43-cd173" type="crimeDate">18th of August</rs>
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; a Silver Monteth, Value 30 l. 3 Casters 3 l. and a great deal of other Plate </rs>
. One Evidence swore, That she saw the Prisoner asking about Mr. Butler's Door, and watching at a distance, saw a Bundle handed out of the Window of a lower Room to the Prisoner, which he took and went away with, and 2 Boys jump'd out afterwards. Whereupon she pursu'd, and a Man assisting her, took the Prisoner, but he had dropt the Plate. He pretended that he met 2 Boys well dress'd, who desir'd him to carry the Bundle for them, and that upon the Pursuit they got off and left him; which being look'd upon only as a Thief's common Pretence, he was found <rs id="t17120910-43-verdict176" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17120910-43-verdict176" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
Guilty </rs>
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