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the property of the Hon.
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I live with
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; on the 19th of March a man came to enquire for my master, if he was at home; he sent up a different
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, sent his duty, and would be glad to speak to my master, he said he did not know him; I came and told him, he begged me to go up again; I had got up a few steps, and saw him open the parlour door, I returned and called my fellow servant, he came up, and the prisoner had just got out of the parlour, and was shuffling something into his pocket or breeches; he said he had taken nothing; I told him he had; and he held out the spoon; he went through the fore-parlour to the back-parlour, where the spoon was, and the cloth was laid. The prisoner was secured.
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Deposed to the same effect.
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(The spoon produced and deposed to.)
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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The parlour-door was open; Mr. Gower's hat laid on a chair, and the spoon on another, and I took the spoon and said, I have cleaned these spoons many a time; I once lived a boy in the family. Mr. Garrow knows me, if I had money, and I supported Mr. Fox's election.
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The prisoner called two witnesses to his character.
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr.
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[Transportation. See summary.]
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