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stealing eighty sheep skins, dressed in oil, value 5 l. </rs>
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Zachariah Putt <interp inst="t17781209-15-victim176" type="surname" value="Putt"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17781209-15-viclabel97" type="occupation">leather-seller</rs>
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. I know nothing of the leather being taken; I can only speak to the property.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>The prisoner rented an apartment of me. I saw him bring in a bundle of things, on the 17th of November, between eight and nine at night. I cannot tell what was in the bundle; he put it in the lower part of my house.</p>
<p>Was that apartment entirely his, or did any body lodge with him? - Entirely his and his wife's.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a watchman. On the 18th of November, in the morning, about half after four, a man came to me, and informed me that a man had brought into his house a looking-glass, and afterwards, as he believed, some linen, because it was white; <rs type="persName" id="t17781209-15-person180"> <interp inst="t17781209-15-person180" type="role" value=""></interp>
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thrust the door open. The prisoner immediately jumped out of the window; the sheep skins were lying on the bed; the prisoner was secured, and we took him and the skins in a coach to Justice Wilmot's; the skins were afterwards delivered into the hands of Negus, who has had them ever since I believe .</p>
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Anne Clark <interp inst="t17781209-15-person181" type="surname" value="Clark"></interp>
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spoke of? - It is.</p>
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Anne Clark <interp inst="t17781209-15-person182" type="surname" value="Clark"></interp>
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. Whether I took the room? - The woman that passed for his wife took the room; they lived together as man and wife, and paid me very honestly .</p>
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JOHN NEGUS <interp inst="t17781209-15-person183" type="surname" value="NEGUS"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was present at the searching of the house where Miller lived; we secured the sheep skins; I have had the care of them ever since they were fully committed, before that, they were locked up in a house next door to Mr. Justice Wilmot's office. I saw them locked up; I examined the things, and know they are the same. I found in the prisoner's apartment these tools (producing two iron crows and another instrument); they are things for wrenching open places, and a thing to put in the key holes of a door to turn the key, and push it out in order to put in their own key, and open the door.</p>
<p>(The skins were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a watchman; when I went into the room at Mrs. Clark's; the first man I saw was Plunket. I took him by the collar, and secured him; he made no resistance at all; Miller was in his shirt, with his collar and risbands unbuttoned; he had the window shutter in his hand; he put down the shutter, and with both his hands knocked out the window and jumped out. The skins were lying on the bed, and the bed clothes turned over them.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a watchman. I saw the skins lie on the bed .</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I came into the room; I came backwards and forwards to this woman; I never paid <rs type="persName" id="t17781209-15-person186"> <interp inst="t17781209-15-person186" type="role" value=""></interp>
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any rent at all. I know nothing of the woman, and Mrs. Clark knows nothing of me.</p>
<p>Matson. He did not escape when he jumped out; of the window; we took him directly as he jumped out; there were thirty skins bundled up; the rest were loose upon the bed.</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>[Imprisonment. See summary.]</note>
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