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; that he saw a lighter called the Four Mill Lighter (which lighter the two prisoners always worked, being lightermen to Mr. Tealing, who is steward to Mr. Lockwell), lying about three or four hundred yards from the tenth mill on the 13th of November, about one in the morning; and that he saw two men take a small boat from that lighter, and go into Betson's Dock, and tumble in some sacks; but could not distinguish the persons to know who they were; that they left the boat in the dock. Then he went to see what they had put in the boat, and found four sacks, marked B. in a frame, with corn in them, and one containing five bushels of flour; the flour was marked with a frame, and J. M. in the middle; he left them as he found them; that soon after he and his master.
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, deposed, that on the 13th of November, about seven in the morning, Betson and Sharp brought him the two samples; that he went and looked at the sacks in the boat; that the sack, marked J. M. was his own property, and the others were the property of Mr. Lockward; and the wheat in them he supposed to be the property of
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, steward to Mr. Lockwell, deposed, that the two prisoners were employed to work the Four Mill Lighter, and that only; that the two samples were shewed to him, and they were compared with and suited the owners other wheat and flour as near as could be; that he went to Betson's Dock, and found the boat was gone to Limehouse-hole; that he went to Limehouse, and saw the sacks taken out of the boat there.
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, ever since they were children;
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Joshua Barnes
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, about 3;
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Richard Elaby
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, about 20;
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William Williams
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, 17 or 18; Mr. Perry about 10; Mr. Powis and two others, several years; and all gave them the character of industrious, sober, careful, well-behaved, young men.
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Both
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Acquitted
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.
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