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, of <rs type="placeName" id="t17281204-49-defloc224">St. Dunstan's Stepney</rs>
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feloniously stealing twenty nine Pounds Weight of Indigo, value 32 s. </rs>
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. The Prosecutor depos'd, That the Prisoner was his weekly <rs id="t17281204-49-deflabel226" type="occupation">Servant</rs>
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, when the Goods were lost out of his Warehouse; but when, and how he took the Goods, he could not tell; neither did he miss any of his Indigo; but finding the Goods in the Hands of one <rs type="persName" id="t17281204-49-person306"> <interp inst="t17281204-49-person306" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, he caused him to be apprehended: He likewise said, The Prisoner confess'd to him, and another, that he took the Goods in a clandestine Manner; but this Confession not being clearly prov'd, and <rs type="persName" id="t17281204-49-person308"> <interp inst="t17281204-49-person308" type="role" value=""></interp>
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acquitted </rs>
him.</p>
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