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feloniously returning from transportation, and being found at large on the <rs id="t17861213-31-cd163" type="crimeDate">24th of October</rs>
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last, without any lawful cause </rs>
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sworn.</p>
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Joseph Murrell <interp inst="t17861213-31-person312" type="surname" value="Murrell"></interp>
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. (Read and examined with the record.) I know nothing of the prisoner, only I apprehended him in <rs type="placeName" id="t17861213-31-crimeloc164">Shadwell</rs>
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the 24th of October last; I had information of him as a returned transport; no fact has appeared against him; he was at large.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I know the prisoner; he was tried here in May sessions, 1784; I was present; I am sure this is the same man; he was tried for stealing a copper kettle; he received sentence to be transported for seven years to America.</p>
<p>- CAMPBELL sworn.</p>
<p>This man escaped ever since February last.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I do not deny that I made my escape; I did it with an intent to go to sea; I led but a bad life with the people down there; I have been at sea ever since, and the ship I was taken from is gone to sea, which was the Roman Emperor, Captain Armstrong; I was going to the Streights with her again;<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178612130048"></xptr>
I was on board her better I believe than six months and a fortnight.</p>
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Death </rs>
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humbly recommended to mercy by the Jury </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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