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I lost two kits of salmon out of a warehouse under
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; I saw it in the warehouse on the 11th of June, at about seven or eight in the evening; I found it in the watch-house the next morning; I was called out of bed, I am sure it was mine, because there was a mark upon it; I missed three kits, two were found in their custody; and one afterwards in a cart.
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On the 12th of June as Honeyball and I were coming down St. Dunstan's hill, we met the prisoner Swift with the salmon on his head; I went across the way and asked him where he got it; he said from a man on the Keys; I asked him to go and show me the man; when we came to Thames-street, he threw the salmon off his head upon me; one kit cut my eye; the other stunned me. Honeyball pursued him, and I recovered myself and went round the gateway and stopped him and carried him to the watch-house; one of the kits broke in the fall; from that mark I know it: we did not see Pearce at the time.
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; and added, that Pearce said before the justice, commit us both for we were both concerned together.)
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SWIFT's DEFENCE.
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A man called me and asked me if I wanted a job; he had three of kits of salmon in his cart; in Thames-street he put two on my head; Honor ran against me and knocked them off my head, and then said, I threw them at him.
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I know nothing of it.
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N. 3 years
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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