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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17880227-36-cd181" type="crimeDate">20th of January</rs>
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, a ripping-saw, value 7 s. a pannel-saw, value 6 s. a carcass saw, value 6 s. a wooden stock, value 1 s. and eighteen bits of iron and steel, value 7 s. </rs>
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; I live at Mile-End; I lost the things mentioned in the indictment out my chest; it was in my master's workshop.</p>
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<p>I am a publican; I keep the sign of the White Horse, Baldwin's Gardens; I am a carpenter by trade; the two prisoners were at my house drinking, on the 23d or 24th of January; Murwell had a stock and eighteen bits; they said, it was all they could get of a bad debt of one Cleavely, who was in St. Thomas's Hospital; I bought them of Murwell for 7 s. 6 d. Oddy said, Murwell was obliged to to sell them, because he was going into the country; on the 29th of January they brought these three saws; I was not at home, they came and left them, and came the next day, and asked me what I would give for them; I took them into a back parlor, and looked at them, and saw the letter A upon them; I asked the prisoner his name; he said, it was Murwell; he said, he worked for Mrs. Allen in the Borough; I said, they told me the stock and bits were all they could get of a bad debt from Cleavely, and if they did not give me a satisfactory answer from Mrs. Allen, I would stop them; they went away, and came again on the 31st, and brought this letter; (producing it.) I told them that was not satisfactory, and that I had written to Mrs. Allen; after that, I met Oddy, and took him into custody; the other prisoner was taken the same evening.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am an officer; I apprehended the prisoner; I took a duplicate out of Murwell's pocket of some things that are the property of the prosecutor.</p>
<p>(The things mentioned in the indictment were produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am clerk to Mrs. Allen; the letter produced is signed by my name; I know nothing of it.</p>
<p>To Sellers. When this letter was brought to you by Murwell, did he tell you what <rs type="persName" id="t17880227-36-person405"> <interp inst="t17880227-36-person405" type="role" value=""></interp>
John Holmes <interp inst="t17880227-36-person405" type="surname" value="Holmes"></interp>
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he brought it from? - Yes; <rs type="persName" id="t17880227-36-person406"> <interp inst="t17880227-36-person406" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, clerk to Mrs. Allen, King-street, in the Borough.</p>
<p>To Holmes. Is that your hand-writing? (Shewing him the letter.) - No, it is not.</p>
<p>Anderson. I received a letter from Mrs. Allen; the servant who brought it is here.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a cabinet-maker; I went to Sellers the 30th of January, in the evening; he said, two men had left some saws there; and were to call again; soon after Oddy came in; we took him into the parlor; he said, they belonged to Murwell, that he had them for a bad debt, that they did belong to Cleavely; he said, he delivered them to him out of his chest; I asked where his chest was; he said, at his lodgings in Duke-street, in the Borough; I said, I thought it extraordinary, that a man in the hospital, should have liberty to go out of the hospital to give a man the things out of his chest; he said, he had liberty to go when he pleased; he said, he had pawned them, and took them out again; while we<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178802270051"></xptr>
were talking, Murwell came in, and said, he had them of Cleavely for a bad debt; they said, they would prove them their property, they did not want the money, they would leave them, and come again for the money; the next day we took Oddy into custody, and went in search of Murwell, and took him not far from Sellers's house in the evening.</p>
<p>MURWELL's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I had been at work, at Barking in Essex; I came home on the Sunday; I went to the house of one <rs type="persName" id="t17880227-36-person408"> <interp inst="t17880227-36-person408" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, and asked him to give me a lodging, and I staid there two nights; I lent him 13 s. and he said, he would sell me some saws; I went to work at another place, and I came and asked him if he had the saws, and bought them of him.</p>
<p>ODDY's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I am innocent of the affair; I do not know how he came by the saws.</p>
<p>Oddy called five witnesses, who gave him a good character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Transported for fourteen years </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.</p>
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