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deposed, that himself the Prisoner, and one Rhodes, did the Fact; that the Prisoner look'd in at the Window, and seeing no body there, said it was a Bob ken (i.e. that it was a House easy to be robbed) so he broke the Sash , stole the Stockings, and sold them to
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. Another Evidence depos'd that when they apprehended him he told them he was not afraid of being Hang'd, for he should never be Hang'd by the Testimony of one that made himself in Evidence, for he had been try'd several times before and always came off for all their Evidences; however the Jury now found him
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