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on the 18th of July; I was in the crowd seeing part of the royal family coming out of the coach; the prisoner stood close to me by my side, and another man, seeming to be of his company, stood behind him; the prisoner push'd against me, and catch'd hold of the string of my watch with his right-hand.
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Q. How do you know that?
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Gregg. I felt a pull at it, I look'd down and saw his hand at my fobb, he took out my watch and put his hands behind him, and took it with his left-hand from his right-hand, and put it into his left-hand waistcoat pocket, then he turn'd about and was geting out of the crowd, I follow'd him: in about a minute or two after he had got it, Mr.
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said to me, Have you lost any thing? I said, Yes, I had lost my watch. He said, I saw this man take it, and
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laid hold of the prisoner, and said, Where is the watch you took from the gentleman? The prisoner said, What watch, and took it out of his waistcoat pocket: Mr. Watkins took it from him and delivered it to me. Produced in court, and deposed to.
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Q. Had he gone far from the place where you say you lost it?
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Gregg. No, he had not got out of the court-yard, but was moved a little way from the spot.
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Prisoner's Defence.
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My father and I are braziers, there are none in England but us in the same branch; I had no need to go a pilfering for my living; that is all I have to say.
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