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well knowing that one <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-victim328"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-victim328" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-victim328" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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had lately served our Lord the King on board the Pallas, and that certain prize money was due to him for such service, on the <rs id="t17840421-18-cd95" type="crimeDate">5th of January</rs>
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last, feloniously, wilfully, and knowingly, did personate and falsly assume the name and character of the said <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person329"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person329" type="role" value=""></interp>
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aforesaid, in order to receive the said prize money, against the form of the statute </rs>
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<p>A Second Count, for personating on the same day the said <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person330"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person330" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-person330" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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, supposing he was entitled to certain prize money, in order to receive the same.</p>
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CHARLES PINKSTON <interp inst="t17840421-18-person331" type="surname" value="PINKSTON"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am clerk to Mr. Hooper, he is a navy agent, on the 5th of January the prisoner at the bar came to our office with <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person332"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person332" type="role" value=""></interp>
Thomas Brady <interp inst="t17840421-18-person332" type="surname" value="Brady"></interp>
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, he said he had an order to receive some prize money, and desired me to draw an order, which I did; he made his mark, and I witnessed it.</p>
<p>(The order produced.)</p>
<p>Mr. Sylvester, Council for Prosecution. Did you afterwards pay him any prize money? - Yes, I received three pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence, and afterwards paid it, there is a receipt for the money.</p>
<p>(The order read.)</p>
<p>"The mark of <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person333"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person333" type="role" value=""></interp>
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."</p>
<p>"London, the 5th of Jan. 1784.</p>
<p>"Sir,</p>
<p>"Please to pay the money due to me for</p>
<p>"prize money on the Pallas, <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person334"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person334" type="role" value=""></interp>
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,</p>
<p>"and you will oblige your humble servant."</p>
<p>"Pallas prize money, 3 17 s. 6 d.</p>
<p>"Received the 17th of January 1784,</p>
<p>"three pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence,</p>
<p>"being so much received by me as</p>
<p>"abovementioned; I say received by me."</p>
<p>Do you know any thing else? - On the day Brady was taken up, this man at the bar came into the office towards the evening, and asked me if there was any more<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178403270054"></xptr>
prize money money for him; knowing Brady was in custody, I informed my master, who was in the kitchen, that Howard was come to know if there was any more prize money; Mr. Hooper came into the office, and asked him what his name was; he said his name was <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person335"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person335" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-person335" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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, and he came after more prize money; he then desired him to go with him, and he would acquaint him something of it; he took him to the public house close by where Brady was; when we took him to the public house he said his name was <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person336"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person336" type="role" value=""></interp>
Peter Haslett <interp inst="t17840421-18-person336" type="surname" value="Haslett"></interp>
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, just come from Ireland to receive the wages of his brother, <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person337"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person337" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Haslett <interp inst="t17840421-18-person337" type="surname" value="Haslett"></interp>
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, deceased.</p>
<p>Mr. Sylvester. Is this the same man who received the prize money in the name of <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person338"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person338" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-person338" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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? - Yes.</p>
<p>You are sure as to his person? - I am positive.</p>
<p>Was Howard entitled to prize money? - Yes.</p>
<p>Mr. WADE sworn.</p>
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from September 1778, to 1783.</p>
<p>Have you any of the name of Veruley, or Haslett? - I have <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person340"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person340" type="role" value=""></interp>
Edward Veruley <interp inst="t17840421-18-person340" type="surname" value="Veruley"></interp>
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WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE <interp inst="t17840421-18-person341" type="surname" value="LIVINGSTONE"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>Mr. Fielding. Did you serve on board the Pallas? - Yes.</p>
<p>Did you know the prisoner? - Yes.</p>
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James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-person343" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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? - Yes.</p>
<p>Were they two men? - Yes.</p>
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JAMES MITCHELL <interp inst="t17840421-18-person344" type="surname" value="MITCHELL"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>You were a <rs id="t17840421-18-deflabel96" type="occupation"> <rs id="t17840421-18-viclabel97" type="occupation">seaman</rs>
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on board the Pallas? - Yes.</p>
<p>You know the prisoner? - Yes.</p>
<p>What is his name? - <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person345"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person345" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, at the time I served on board the ship.</p>
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James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-person346" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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? - Yes, that is not the man at all.</p>
<p>Was you at Mr. Hooper's when the prisoner was there? - Yes.</p>
<p>What happened? - He trod upon my toes, and pinched a piece out of my finger; he asked me what I called him by his name for.</p>
<p>What did you call him? - I called him Veruly, he asked me what I called him by his name for; I thought he was in liquor, I went in to ask a question about the prize money, I saw him in Hooper's office.</p>
<p>Did you see the clerk of Mr. Hooper? - I saw him sitting at the desk.</p>
<p>- M'INTOSH sworn.</p>
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, in consequence of what had just passed, the prisoner came with him, and this Brady said he wanted some business done in the agency line; this man applied to me in the name of <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person348"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person348" type="role" value=""></interp>
Peter Haslett <interp inst="t17840421-18-person348" type="surname" value="Haslett"></interp>
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, as administrator to his brother that he had on board the Pallas.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
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James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-person349" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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on board the Pallas five years, and I got my own prize money that was due to me in that name; that man has swore my life away wrongfully; when Mr. Hooper first took me, he said he would hang me without Judge or Jury.</p>
<p>Court to Livingstone. Did he go by the name of <rs type="persName" id="t17840421-18-person350"> <interp inst="t17840421-18-person350" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Howard <interp inst="t17840421-18-person350" type="surname" value="Howard"></interp>
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? - Never.</p>
<p>Mitchell. He never did, my Lord, while I was in the ship, which was two and twenty months.</p>
<p>The prisoner called one witness who gave him a good character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Death </rs>
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<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice NARES.</p>
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