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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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, then and there fixed to a certain house belonging to the said
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Two young men who lodge at my house, hearing a great noise at the top of the next house to mine, they alarmed me about six in the morning; I came down directly, and saw the prisoner come out of the house with the lead in his hand in a bag; he was stopped by a young man who sleeps at my house.
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Do you know where it came from? - It was taken from the gutter between the two houses; he went up, and would have put it in its place again.
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I heard a great noise at the next house; I got up immediately and came down, and met the prisoner with the lead, and called the watchman, who took him.
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- BROOKS sworn.
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I fitted the lead, and it matched exactly.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I was going by this house about six in the morning; it is an empty house, the door is always open, and children are often playing in it; I have been in it often; I know nothing of the lead: they gave me in charge of the patrol, who knew me very well.
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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[Imprisonment. See summary.]
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