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was indicted for
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, nine silk handkerchiefs, value 30 s.
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the property of
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I am a
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Oxford-street
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. On the 12th of March I lost nine
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silk handkerchiefs from the door of my shop; they were affixed to the door post; I saw them five minutes after they had been taken; a person whom I do not know picked them up, and gave them to me: the prisoner was taken immediately by
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(The handkerchiefs produced and deposed to.)
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I was passing by Mr. Billett's, the 12th of March, about half past five, and I saw the prisoner take these handkerchiefs off from the door-post; he was going along the street, and rolling them up; I pursued and took him; hearing a person speak to me, he ran across Oxford-road, and dropt the handkerchiefs in the middle of the road; I ran after him, he fell down, and I took him: these are the handkerchiefs.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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A man took the handkerchiefs, and chucked them down, and I took them up.
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Transported for seven years
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Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Lord KENYON.
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Court. Where do you come from? speak the truth now.
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Prisoner. I was born in Bandy-leg-walk; I came out of Drury-lane.
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What has been your employment? - I am a
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