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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17921031-8-cd45" type="crimeDate">24th day of August</rs>
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, a wooden chest, value 6 d. and eighty-one pound of tea, value 10 l. the goods of <rs type="persName" id="t17921031-8-victim111"> <interp inst="t17921031-8-victim111" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Edward Eagleton <interp inst="t17921031-8-victim111" type="surname" value="Eagleton"></interp>
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, privately, in his dwelling house </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I live shopman with Mr. Eagleton; he is a <rs id="t17921031-8-viclabel46" type="occupation">tea dealer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="t17921031-8-crimeloc47">Cheapside</rs>
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; Mr. Constable came on the 25th of August and enquired if we had not lost a chest of tea; we examined our stock and found the tea deficient; we knew the number of the chest; it was 4683; I saw the chest at Hercules' Court, in Threadneedle-street, about twelve o'clock the same day; it was delivered to Mr. Hunt, he is a constable (looks at a paper); the box contained about eighty-two pounds: I never saw the prisoner about our house.</p>
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WILLIAM RENSHAW <interp inst="t17921031-8-person113" type="surname" value="RENSHAW"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a ticket porter; on the 24th of August, about nine o'clock in the evening, I saw the prisoner and two men coming along Cornhill; I followed them through Finch Lane; they went up Threadneedle-street; they pitched the box; I suspected they had stole it, and ran for Hunt, and he took the prisoner; the box was on the prisoner's back; he could not carry it, but dropped it: he said before the Lord Mayor that they gave him 6 d. to carry it.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was called by Renshaw; when I went to lay hold of the prisoner he had the box on his shoulders and threw it down; he ran away; I took the chest of tea to my house; I have kept it ever since (produced); there was tea in it, the chest was stove by falling.</p>
<p>Wright. This seems to be the same; it is marked 4683; there are two initial letters, G. C. they signification are of the ship the General Coote; we had three chests by the same ship; they were amongothers in the front shop.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I know nothing about it; they asked me to cary it, and said they would give me 6 d. I said I would if I could, but it was too heavy.</p>
<p>Court. What is the value of the tea? - don't over value it, place it rather under than over the mark? - It is worth at least 10 l. my Lord.</p>
<p>The prisoner called four witnesses to his character.</p>
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GUILTY, 39 s. </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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