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, of <rs type="placeName" id="t17441205-24-defloc152">St. Botolph, Bishopsgate</rs>
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on the King's highway, putting him in fear, &c. and taking from him 4 s. 3 d. in money </rs>
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. On the 9th of November, between 9 and 10 o'clock, or about 15 minutes after 9, I saw the Prisoner, and some others with him, they passed me in Old Bethlehem; there was the prisoner, another man, a woman, and a little boy: as I came by the posts in <rs type="placeName" id="t17441205-24-crimeloc155">Moorfields</rs>
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, the little boy and the woman came close up to me; said I, You little dog, do you want to pick my pocket? and the prisoner said, D - n your eyes, what do you want? the little boy drew a knife at me, and said he would immediately let my puddings out, if I did not let him have what I had; the woman had a knife, and she threatened to rip me up; I had just 4 s. 3 d. which they took from me; there was another fellow along with the prisoner, and he gave me a great blow, and said, D - n your eyes, take that, all the black-boy-alley boys are not taken yet.</p>
<p>Q. How do you know the Prisoner was one of them?</p>
<p>Welldy. I took particular notice of his feet, for he is lame; I know he is the person, for he held me by the collar, the moon shone, and the lamps were lighted, - it was by the lamps facing Bethlehem-gate, close to the rails; when he was taken the other day, I was sent for by the constable, and I said I had been abused and robbed, but I did not mind the money so much as being abused.</p>
<p>Q. How do you know he is the very man?</p>
<p>Welldy. He had a long reddish beard on then, he is the man that held me.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I desire that Mr. Lloyd, the man that took me last Sunday, may not be present while the other witnesses are examining. [Mr. Lloyd was ordered to withdraw.]</p>
<p>Prisoner. Why did not you discover that you had been robbed, directly?</p>
<p>Welldy. I told it to my family, and to a great many people that night, and to an hundred, I am sure, since.</p>
<p>Q. Did you ever tell Mr. Lloyd of it before the Prisoner was taken up?</p>
<p>Welldy. I never saw Lloyd till I was sent for; I have said many a time, that it was a lame-footed man that took hold of me.</p>
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. I know the Prisoner to be a common pick-pocket, and has been so for a matter of 14 years. Mr. Welldy was in company with two or three more, and owned that he had been robbed in Moorfields; there were two men who knew the Prisoner very well, came to me, and said they believed they knew where he was to be found; that he used to be about St. Paul's Church-yard, and under Newgate, and last Sunday night I took him under Newgate.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Mr. Lloyd took me up about a month ago, but he could not make any thing out against me, so I was discharged; and he said, though he could not keep me then, he would have me again. <rs id="t17441205-24-verdict156" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17441205-24-verdict156" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
Guilty </rs>
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Death </rs>
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