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was indicted for
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, twenty pair of silk and cotton stockings, value 5l. thirty-two pair of cotton stockings, value 4l. 13s. five pair of cotton and worsted stockings, value 15s. a pair of worsted stockings, value 1s. and three silk and cotton purses, value 1s. 6d. the property of
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, of which William Bergen and Joseph Chase have been convicted, he knowing them to have been stolen
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice ASHURST.
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