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stealing four pounds weight of moist sugar, value 1 s. the property of persons unknown </rs>
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<p>I belong to the quay where there were some sugar which belonged to a merchant; I was told a person had taken some sugar out; I went up and saw the prisoner with a bag open, and another person taking the sugar out of the hogshead, and putting it into the bag; I secured both the prisoner and the bag.</p>
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<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I have no witness here.</p>
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GUILTY of stealing to the value of ten-pence </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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