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. It appear'd that the Prisoner came into the Prosecutor's Shop, and took the Goods, but being pursu'd, threw the Firkin down, and cut the Evidence cross the Wrist with a Knife. He had escap'd from his Keepers, as he was going on Board for Transportation, and afterwards broke out of Newgate with several others.
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