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was indicted for
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stealing, on the
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24th of February
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last, one woollen blanket, value 1 s.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can only say what my brother has said.
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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.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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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.
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Court to
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. Was he going towards home or from home? - From home, my lord.
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(Aged 20.)
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Fined 1 s.
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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