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, July 25. || See No. 25. in last sessions paper.
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. Deposed her house being broke open, and she robbed, as in the former trial.
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, as before, concerning breaking the house and stealing the things, with this addition. We sold our share to
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, he goes by the name of Scampy the Jew. We took the money in the Broad-court, Duke's-place.
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, and I was to have that money.
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Q. Did you ever see the prisoner before that time ?
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Hatton. No, I did not know him before.
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Q. Look at the prisoner at the bar, what have you to say against him?
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Hatton. My lord, that looks like the man, but I cannot be positive to him.
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Q. What did you sell the goods for?
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Hatton. We sold them for 12 shillings.
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Prosecutrix. The witness Hatton told me the prisoner had bought several things of him before that, some shoes that he stole in Virginia-street, and that he knew them to be stolen. I fear he is corrupted by the Jew.
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Q. to Hatton. Did you tell Mrs. Ormond so?
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Prisoner's defence.
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I am quite innocent of the thing.
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To his character.
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. I have known the prisoner a great while, and I never heard any harm of him.
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Q. How long do you mean by a great while?
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Hay. Ever since he was six years old, my lord.
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. I don't think any thing in the world, can speak a word against my son.
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Q. Who is your son?
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Miers. The prisoner is my son, no body can say he ever did any harm in the world; he has had under his hands a thousand and a thousand pounds of Mr. Salvadore's, and never did wrong in his life.
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