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was indicted for
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instant, one caravan box, value 6 d. two gauze caps, value 2 s. one apron value 2 s. and twelve handkerchiefs, value 6 s.
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, I was coming from my place, No. 133, Upper Thames-street; and this box was lost out of the coach on the 5th of October; there were two or three boxes put in, and one was taken out; the box I lost was opened at the Mansion House.
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I was coming over
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, and I saw the prisoner put his hand into the coach, take out a box, and call to a man by the name of Will to come and take it, I said Will shall not take it, and the prosecutrix came and claimed it: the prisoner said, if he ever got clear he would do me for it.
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I know nothing of it.
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Tried by the London Jury, before Mr.
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