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NOSEY</rs>
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stealing a carcase of lamb 40 lb. wt. value 15 s. </rs>
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Henry Fountain <interp inst="t17780916-33-victim280" type="surname" value="Fountain"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17780916-33-viclabel171" type="occupation">butcher</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="t17780916-33-crimeloc172">Hosier-lane</rs>
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, I had frequently lost carcases of lamb and sheep; particularly on the 23d of May I lost a carcase of lamb; the prisoner, White, was my <rs id="t17780916-33-deflabel173" type="occupation">servant</rs>
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; I mentioned it to <rs type="persName" id="t17780916-33-person282"> <interp inst="t17780916-33-person282" type="role" value=""></interp>
Joseph Stiff <interp inst="t17780916-33-person282" type="surname" value="Stiff"></interp>
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, that I had lost this lamb, and he said he believed he could give me some intelligence of it; he said Nosey was one of the persons that took it off the hook. Nosey was taken into custody, and he said he took it by the direction of White; the other prisoner White when he was taken into custody, acknowledged, before he was taken before the alderman, that he had taken the lamb, and Nosey said he took it from my house by the order of White.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I saw Nosey take the lamb off the hook, at Mr. Fountain's shop, on the 23d of May, and carry it away.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I bought a lamb of White, I gave him thirteen shillings for it, it weighed four stone four pound and a half; I bought it as the property of White, he said he had bought three lambs, it stood me in five-pence farthing a pound.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. Nosey waited about the place, and when there was a favourable opportunity, White gave him a signal, and he took it away.</p>
<p>WHITE's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I lived with Mr. Fountain, I used to sell his goods for him, and give him the money; I forgot to give him the money for this lamb.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.</p>
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<note>[Imprisonment. See summary.]</note>
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