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EPHRAIM EPHRAIMS <interp inst="t17760221-28-defend314" type="surname" value="EPHRAIMS"></interp>
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stealing ten muslin handkerchiefs, value thirty shillings, a linen gown, value ten shillings, two stuff gowns, value twenty shillings, five yards of linen cloth, value four shillings, a stuff petticoat, value eight shillings, and six linen aprons, value three shillings </rs>
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Edward Downing <interp inst="t17760221-28-victim316" type="surname" value="Downing"></interp>
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, <rs id="t17760221-28-cd146" type="crimeDate">January 31st</rs>
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EDWARD DOWNING <interp inst="t17760221-28-person317" type="surname" value="DOWNING"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17760221-28-viclabel147" type="occupation">waggoner</rs>
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; as I was driving my waggon by <rs type="placeName" id="t17760221-28-crimeloc148">White-gate-alley</rs>
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, I lost a trunk and bundle, which was tied to it, out of my waggon; a person called to me and informed me of it: this is the trunk and bundle (producing it).</p>
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WILLIAM DAPLING <interp inst="t17760221-28-person318" type="surname" value="DAPLING"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I saw the prisoner take the trunk and bundle from a boy or man in the waggon; there is a ladder behind the waggon, it rather lodged there; the prisoner snatched it from behind the waggon, as he took it, it fell and he took it up; I immediately laid hold of him as he was going off with it.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>The trunk was delivered to me; I have had it ever since; it is now in the state in which I received it.</p>
<p>[The contents of the bundle and trunk, which were the things mentioned in the indictment, were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.]</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>It fell out of the waggon, and I picked it up.</p>
<p>The prisoner called a witness, who said he heard a noise; that indeed he did not see the trunk drop; but saw the prisoner take it up.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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<note>[Branding. See summary.]</note>
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<note>[Imprisonment. See summary.]</note>
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