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was indicted for
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feloniously returning from transportation, and being found at large on the
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8th day of February
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, without any lawful cause, before the expiration of his term
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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
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I know the prisoner, his name is
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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.
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(A certificate from the Clerk of the Assize of the Prisoner's conviction read by
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I am constable of the parish of St.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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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.
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Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.
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