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108. (L.)
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was indicted for
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December 14
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Cheapside
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on the 14th of December, about twelve at noon, I felt something at my pocket; I turned round and caught the prisoner with his hand in my pocket, drawing out my handkerchief. I took hold of him by the collar, then he dropt the handkerchief, and I picked it up; I took him before my Lord-mayor who committed him. (The handkerchief produced and deposed to by the prosecutor.)
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Prisoner's Defence.
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Another boy took the handkerchief out and put it into my hand, I dropt it directly. I am a
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. I have been a year in a collier, at 12 s. a month. I have not been ashore but a week.
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