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last, three thousand three hundred pounds weight of logwood, value 10 l. </rs>
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<p>JOHN LOW sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17840225-110-viclabel548" type="occupation">dealer in foreign wood</rs>
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; my workhouse is at <rs type="placeName" id="t17840225-110-crimeloc549">Shadwell</rs>
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<p>Court. Have you a partner? - No, I have a partner in that wood, but no partnership.</p>
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; we are partners now and then, by mere chance, just as we happen to buy a parcel.</p>
<p>Did you buy this wood together? - We did, the wood was bought by me, by the desire of Porteous, we were to buy it and sell it on our joint account; I have had it five or six months; I know nothing of the prisoners; but at the justice's, one of them said he found it.</p>
<p>How did you know the wood? - I knew it at the justice's, there is no mark on it, but being such a quantity of wood as that, I had not a doubt before the magistrate, and there is not a doubt remains with me; there was three thousand three hundred pounds weight of it, I had taken it in different lots.</p>
<p>Was all the wood produced that you lost? - No.</p>
<p>What time might it take to remove three thousand three hundred pounds weight of this wood? - I suppose four or five hours, it is in logs.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>This wood was kept at Shadwell; half of it belongs to me; there was a waggon load of wood brought up to my house to be sold by the prisoners on the 31st of January; I can only swear to it to the best of my knowledge.</p>
<p>Was not it common logwood? - Yes.</p>
<p>Is not there a good deal of logwood in this town? - Yes.</p>
<p>You are not the only man that has logwood in this town? - Not by many; I am sure the prisoners brought it to me, they were with me an hour at the least; I did not pay for it, nor bargain for it; they left it to me to give the worth of it, they knew I was a judge of it; I told them they had it out of my warehouse, and I sent, and the warehouse was broke open, and the wood missing. Before the magistrate, Innis said, he found the wood, the other said something, but I cannot tell what.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a carman; about half past five, Daley called me up, and said he had a load of fire wood; I live about one hundred yards from Mr. Low's warehouse; I went with him, and found my waggon half full of wood; I took it for fire wood; I called up my man, and he loaded the remainder of the waggon, and these two prisoners went with me to Mr. Porteous's house; I was to have six shillings and sixpence for the carriage of it; I saw none of it loaded; I drove the waggon; Daley is a neighbour of our's, a very honest hard working man, bore a good character; I have known him two or three years; I put my cart in an evening in an open place, about one hundred yards from Mr. Low's warehouse.</p>
<p>Jury. Is it customary for people that employ you, to load your waggon without your knowledge, and then come to employ you to drive it? - God knows, I do not know.</p>
<p>Is it your mode of business, or did it appear to you singular? - I do not know.</p>
<p>Did you ever have such a thing done before? - No.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am servant to Mr. Williams; I saw the wood loaded by two men, who did not speak; I cannot say they were the prisoners, as it was dark; they went with me to Mr. Porteous's; then I saw them and remembered their faces.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I worked for Mr. Low the 31st of January. (Speaks to the wood being missing, and<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178402250196"></xptr>
the warehouse being broke open next the waterside.)</p>
<p>PRISONERS DEFENCE.</p>
<p>We know nothing at all about it.</p>
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to his character, who deposed, that he lodged with her, and that on the Saturday morning before he was taken up, she heard him go out a little after five, as she pulled her curtain back when he went out, and saw it was just day break.</p>
<p>The prisoner Innes called two other witnesses to his character.</p>
<p>The prisoner Daly called seven witnesses to his character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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GUILTY </rs>
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confined to hard labour six months in the house of correction </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.</p>
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