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Richard Worris , otherwise <rs id="t17480420-36-alias-8" type="alias"> <join result="nameAlias" targOrder="Y" targets="t17480420-36-defend375 t17480420-36-alias-8"></join>
Irishman</rs>
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William Brister <interp inst="t17480420-36-person376" type="surname" value="Brister"></interp>
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James Page <interp inst="t17480420-36-person377" type="surname" value="Page"></interp>
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Theophilus Watson <interp inst="t17480420-36-person378" type="surname" value="Watson"></interp>
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Henry Gadd <interp inst="t17480420-36-person382" type="surname" value="Gadd"></interp>
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Samuel Bannister <interp inst="t17480420-36-person384" type="surname" value="Bannister"></interp>
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Joseph Underwood <interp inst="t17480420-36-victim386" type="surname" value="Underwood"></interp>
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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 </rs>
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<p>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 <rs type="persName" id="t17480420-36-person387"> <interp inst="t17480420-36-person387" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Page <interp inst="t17480420-36-person387" type="surname" value="Page"></interp>
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, who was acquitted;) but <rs type="persName" id="t17480420-36-person388"> <interp inst="t17480420-36-person388" type="role" value=""></interp>
William Harper <interp inst="t17480420-36-person388" type="surname" value="Harper"></interp>
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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 <rs id="t17480420-36-verdict207" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17480420-36-verdict207" type="verdictCategory" value="notGuilty"></interp>
acquitted </rs>
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<p>* See December Session in Sir <rs type="persName" id="t17480420-36-person389"> <interp inst="t17480420-36-person389" type="role" value=""></interp>
Henry Marshall <interp inst="t17480420-36-person389" type="surname" value="Marshall"></interp>
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22. Trial No. 48. &c. when the above persons, with others of the Black Boy Alley gang, were tried.</p>
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charged with four other highway robberies, viz. for robbing <rs id="t17480420-36-viclabel209" type="occupation">Mr</rs>
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, in company with the abovementioned criminals </rs>
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none of the Prosecutors appearing, he was likewise acquitted </rs>
upon these indictments.</p>
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