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THOMAS WEBSTER alias <rs id="t17920329-41-alias-7" type="alias"> <join result="nameAlias" targOrder="Y" targets="t17920329-41-defend451 t17920329-41-alias-7"></join>
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stealing, on the <rs id="t17920329-41-cd231" type="crimeDate">24th of February</rs>
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last, one woollen blanket, value 1 s. </rs>
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Edward Winter <interp inst="t17920329-41-victim454" type="surname" value="Winter"></interp>
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EDWARD WINTER <interp inst="t17920329-41-person455" type="surname" value="WINTER"></interp>
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<p>I lost a woollen blanket: I did not know that I lost it till I saw it before the aldermen; I have had the blanket between seven and eight years; I have no doubt about the blanket.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a constable. On Friday, the 24th of February, I was going down Chick-lane, I met the prisoner at the bar with the things mentioned in the indictment; I stopped him; I have kept the blanket ever since.</p>
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Prisoner. Did I not tell you how I came by the property? - He said he found it; there was lead wrapped up in it.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I can only say what my brother has said.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. (Deposes to the blanket.) The blanket was on his father's bed. (A quantity of lead pipe produced.) The prisoner was about one hundred yards from the prosecutor's house.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>Please you my lord. I picked up the lead; and Mr. Newman took it from me, and said, if my father would give him a guinea he would settle it; my father had not a guinea; and then he said that he would prosecute me as far as the law would go.</p>
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James Newman <interp inst="t17920329-41-person458" type="surname" value="Newman"></interp>
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. Was he going towards home or from home? - From home, my lord.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
(Aged 20.)</p>
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Fined 1 s. </rs>
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imprisoned six months </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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