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. On the 9th of this month the two prisoners and two other men came into my house, and called for some gin: Statia offered some money to change, and while the maid came to me for the change, Mr. Stevenson told me they had taken my coat; I immediately cried out, stop thief! and pursued them; and Blay was taken almost immediately.
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. I am a labourer: as I was going home to my lodgings, I heard the cry of stop thief; I saw Blay throw the coat down; I picked it up and another person secured him.
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(The coat produced and deposed to by the prosecutor.)
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