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CHRISTOPHER PLUMLEY, otherwise <rs id="t17781209-14-alias-2" type="alias"> <join result="nameAlias" targOrder="Y" targets="t17781209-14-defend165 t17781209-14-alias-2"></join>
HUGHES</rs>
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SPENCER</rs>
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GRANT</rs>
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stealing a bay gelding, value 5 l. </rs>
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Thomas Smith <interp inst="t17781209-14-victim167" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
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, <rs id="t17781209-14-cd91" type="crimeDate">October 23d</rs>
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.</p>
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THOMAS SMITH <interp inst="t17781209-14-person168" type="surname" value="SMITH"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17781209-14-viclabel92" type="occupation">livery-stable-keeper</rs>
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. On Tuesday the 20th of October, the prisoner and a woman came to hire a chaise of me; they said they had hired chaises of a Mr. Warren before, but he being out had recommended them to me; the prisoner wanted the chaise the<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="177812090012"></xptr>
next morning. I asked his address; he said, No. 6, Duke-street, Smithfield. I sent and enquired after him, and heard a good character of him. I took it on Thursday morning myself; he said it was to go to a common (I forget the name) two miles below Woolwich; he said he should return by seven or eight in the evening; I said then, I would send my man to bring it home; he bid me do so, and he would send me the money for the hire of the chaise. I sent my man at eight in the evening; he staid till ten, but the chaise did not come. I heard nothing of it till the Saturday following, and on Monday I saw my horse and chaise which I had let to the prisoner at the George in Drury-lane, in the possession of one Nelson. It was that which I let to the prisoner.</p>
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JOHN BURTON <interp inst="t17781209-14-person169" type="surname" value="BURTON"></interp>
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sworn .</p>
<p>I was sent for on Thursday night to the Blue Boar in Holborn. I did not go that night; I went at eleven o'clock the next morning; I was then applied to by the prisoner to buy some articles of furniture, as I am a broker; then he mentioned a horse and chaise; he was exceedingly drunk; I did not care to deal with him; I thought he had borrowed the chaise, and was going to dispose of it. I went to the public office in Bow-street, and gave information of it, and the horse and chaise was removed to the George in Drury-lane. I was at the George on the Monday, when Mr. Smith saw the horse and chaise; it was the same that had been offered to me. The prisoner was very drunk at all the different times that I saw him.</p>
<p>Cross Examination.</p>
<p>There was another person in company, I believe, a Mrs. Grant? - Yes.</p>
<p>She and you have been long acquainted, I believe? - No. I never saw her but once before.</p>
<p>Was not there a good deal of joking conversation between you and her about the horse and chaise? - No.</p>
<p>You remember the cypher on the chaise; did not you say it was her husband's chaise? - No; she said so.</p>
<p>Have not you been the fabricator of this business? - I have been the fabricator so far as this; I went to the public office in Bow-street.</p>
<p>Do you believe the man was so drunk that he did not know what he was about? - I believe he meant to return it when he was sober .</p>
<p>Prisoner. I leave my defence to my counsel.</p>
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JOHN HANNS <interp inst="t17781209-14-person170" type="surname" value="HANNS"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known the prisoner between eight and nine years; he is a <rs id="t17781209-14-deflabel93" type="occupation">tailor</rs>
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; I believe him to be a worthy honest man; I never heard to the contrary.</p>
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RICHARD BRIDGES <interp inst="t17781209-14-person171" type="surname" value="BRIDGES"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known the prisoner between nine and ten years; I never heard any thing but honesty by him; he bears the character of an honest industrious man.</p>
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JOHN BURNS <interp inst="t17781209-14-person172" type="surname" value="BURNS"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known the prisoner six months; I always heard an honest character of him.</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
.</p>
<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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