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feloniously stealing on the <rs id="t17830226-31-cd170" type="crimeDate">15th of January</rs>
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last, twenty pounds weight of pork, value 10 s. </rs>
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<p>I am a <rs id="t17830226-31-viclabel171" type="occupation">butcher</rs>
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for Oxford-market, I apply at Newgate-market to carry meat to Oxford-market; my cart stood in <rs type="placeName" id="t17830226-31-crimeloc173">Newgate-street</rs>
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, between eight and nine in the morning on the 15th of January, and I put some pork into it, three pigs in sides; I left the cart with nobody with it, when I came back, I saw the prisoner take a side of pork out of my cart, I had a side of veal on my shoulder, I laid hold of him with the pork on his shoulders, says I, this is my pork; he never said any thing to it, and a butcher held my veal while I took him into custody; the pork was mine, it is all my property till I deliver it to my masters; if I lose it I must pay for it; the prisoner said before the Alderman, that a man gave him six-pence to carry the side of pork into the market: the pork was worth about ten shillings.</p>
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<p>I missed a side of pork, out of the cart, I did not see who took it, I was coming down Newgate-street, to the cart, and I saw my master, have the man by the collar, with the side of pork, on his shoulder.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>A butcher asked me to carry this side of pork, up into the market, and he would give me 6 d. I have no witnesses, I never did any thing of the kind before, it was on the 2d day of February.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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twice publickly whipped with in a week, and then discharged </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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