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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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24th of October
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last, without any lawful cause
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I produce the certificate of the conviction of
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. (Read and examined with the record.) I know nothing of the prisoner, only I apprehended him in
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Shadwell
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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.
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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.
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- CAMPBELL sworn.
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This man escaped ever since February last.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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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;
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I was on board her better I believe than six months and a fortnight.
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Death
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He was
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humbly recommended to mercy by the Jury
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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