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So that when you carry out a certain quantity, you are obliged to return that or the money? - Yes, or give a proper account of it: last Saturday morning I pitched my basket at the top of
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, I went to Bride-lane, and delivered four loaves, as I came out of the door, I saw the prisoner take two loaves out of my basket; I immediately run across the street and caught him, I brought him back, he dropped the bread, and some stranger took up the bread, and put it in my basket; I took him into custody, the bread was mine; he was never out of my sight.
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I have a wife and three children, and I could get no work, I was drove to great distress, I had no bread for three or four days; I come from Norfolk to seek for work; I am a baker by trade, I have applied at a number of places, but none of them wanted a journeyman.
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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