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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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, a hempen sack, value 1s. 6d. and a bushel and a half of onions, value 3s.
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.(The case was opened by Mr. Trebeck.)
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sworn. - Examined by Mr. Trebeck. On the 24th of October, 1798, I met the prisoner, about seven in the evening, in Chiswick-lane; he was
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to Mr. Stowe; he had a sack on his back, and when he saw me he threw it into a ditch; I then went up to him, and said, Will, what have you got here, and kicked my foot against it; I said they were onions; yes, master, says he; Mr. Stowe's foreman, Jefferys, was with me, and his son; he said he had them from
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, and was going to take them to Joe Bates's; Jefferys's son said, father, this is our sack, it was in our warehouse when we locked the door; I said then we will go to
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sworn. - Examined by Mr. Trebeck. I am foreman to Mr. Stowe, gardener and farmer: On the evening of the 24th of October, 1798, I was with Potts; I met the prisoner about seven o'clock at night; I had locked the door before I came out; when I returned, after I had been with Potts, I missed a sack of onions; I am sure it was my master's sack; he threw it into the ditch, and ran away; I carried them home and kept them for a twelvemonth, till they were quite rotten; the prisoner had worked for me about two months.
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Prisoner's defence. I was coming along and picked up these onions; I did not throw them into the ditch.
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. (Aged 23.)
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Lord KENYON.
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