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on the King's highway, putting him in fear, and taking from him a silver watch, value 50 s. two brass seals, value 2 s. and a hat, value 4 s. his property
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Mr. Underwood gave the same evidence as he did on a former trial*, when the above persons were tried, convicted and executed, for this and other street robberies (except
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, who gave the information against the Prisoner and the others, and was evidence against them, being dead, and there being no other satisfactory evidence to confirm Mr. Underwood's, he swearing only to the robbery, but not to the persons that committed it, the Prisoner was
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* See December Session in Sir
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22. Trial No. 48. &c. when the above persons, with others of the Black Boy Alley gang, were tried.
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He was likewise
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, in company with the abovementioned criminals
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, but
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none of the Prosecutors appearing, he was likewise acquitted
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