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, without any lawful cause, before the expiration of his term </rs>
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<p>I know the prisoner, I took him on suspicion of being a thief, on the 9th of this month, I found the prisoner in my master, Captain <rs type="persName" id="t17850223-75-person755"> <interp inst="t17850223-75-person755" type="role" value=""></interp>
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's room, he was shut in, and on searching him, I found a knife belonging to my master, and I missed my hat; we took him to the watch-house.</p>
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; I am gaoler of Reading, he was my prisoner, I saw him condemned last March assizes, I brought him to London, and he was taken to Woolwich, in order to be transported.</p>
<p>(A certificate from the Clerk of the Assize of the Prisoner's conviction read by <rs type="persName" id="t17850223-75-person758"> <interp inst="t17850223-75-person758" type="role" value=""></interp>
Thomas Shelton <interp inst="t17850223-75-person758" type="surname" value="Shelton"></interp>
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, Esq; Clerk of the Arraigns.)</p>
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<p>I am constable of the parish of St.<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178502230110"></xptr>
James's, Westminster, I took the prisoner before Sir Sampson Wright.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I have only to say, I had very hard urage on board the hulk; but I did not mean to remain in England, I had been at sea for ten years.</p>
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Death </rs>
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<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.</p>
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