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, a cloth coat, value 30s. two waistcoats, value 20s. a shirt, value 7s. three neck handkerchiefs, value 3s. a pocket handkerchief, value 6d. a silk handkerchief, value 5s. and a pair of stockings, value 3s. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t18010916-1-victim48"> <interp inst="t18010916-1-victim48" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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<p>THOMAS JUDGE sworn. - I live at No. 114, Fleet-street; I sent a boy for a box of mine, to Mr. Gibson's, in Well-street, Oxford-street, the boy's name is Thomas Sansum; I sent him on Saturday, the 8th of August, and he did not return till Sunday, when he told me they had been taken from him.</p>
<p>THOMAS SANSUM called. Q. How old are you? - A. Going of twelve.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know what an oath is? - A. No.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know the consequence of swearing falsely? - A. Yes.</p>
<p>Q.What is it? - A. I shall not go to God.(He is sworn.) I live with Mr. Judge: On the 8th of August, he sent me to Mr. Gibson's, in Wells-street, for some clothes; I left Mr. Gibson's about eight o'clock at night, with a box of clothes; when I got to the top of High-Holborn, I saw <rs type="persName" id="t18010916-1-person50"> <interp inst="t18010916-1-person50" type="role" value=""></interp>
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<p>Q. Do you mean the prisoner; look at him?- A. I think it is.</p>
<p>Q. Have you any doubt about his being the man? - A. I think he is, he is in the same dress as when he met me, he had boots and a blue coat on; he asked me the way to Fleet-market; I told him I was going that way; he said he had come thirty miles, and he said he had come twelve miles without stockings; he asked me if I would go into a public-house to drink; I went with him into the Six Cans and Punch-Bowl; he took the box off my head, and put it on the table; he asked the publican for some beer, and pulled out sixpence, and sent me for some biscuits to eat with the beer, and when I came back, he was gone with the box; I searched after him for a few minutes, but could not find him; I staid all night in the street, because I was afraid to go home; I did not go home till three o'clock on Sunday; there was a bundle and an umbrella tied to the top of the box.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know what was in the box? - A. No.</p>
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sworn. - On the 8th of August, I saw the prisoner and the boy come in with the box; he ordered a pint of beer; the girl did not draw it so quick as I could wish, and I saw him go out; I said, don't go without your beer; he said, he should come in again immediately, and in a minute or two the boy came in, and said, he had lost his bundle; some people, who were in the house, went different ways in pursuit of him, but could not find him.</p>
<p>Q. Did you know the prisoner before? - A. No.</p>
<p>Q. How do you know it was the prisoner? - A. I am positive it was the prisoner.</p>
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sworn. - I saw the prisoner and the boy bring the box into Sweet's house, I saw him give the boy sixpence, and tell him to go for some cakes, and bring good change; he was going out after the boy, and the landlord brought a pint of beer, and asked him if he was going out without his beer; he said, he was only going without the door, and should return immediately.</p>
<p>ROBERT ALLEN sworn. - I am servant to Mr. Fleming; I received some things in pledge from a Mrs. Ann Huddy, on the 19th of <rs type="persName" id="t18010916-1-person53"> <interp inst="t18010916-1-person53" type="role" value=""></interp>
August. </rs>
(Produces a coat, waistcoat, a pair of stockings, a pair of gaters, three neck handkerchiefs and a stock.)</p>
<p>Judge. I know these things to be mine, they are most of them marked with my name.</p>
<p>Q.How came they at Mr. Gibson's? - A. I had been in the country, and when I came to town, I left them there, and sent for them the next day; the box was nailed down.</p>
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sworn. - Mr. Foster sent for me to pledge these things for him, I made no doubt but they were his own, and I did it for him.</p>
<p>JOHN CLARKE sworn. - I searched the prisoner, and found upon him an amazing quantity of duplicates, which led to these things at Mr. Fleming's, and a great variety of other things; I took this shirt from him at the Compter.</p>
<p>Judge. This is my shirt; the umbrella and bundle that were tied upon the box, belonged to my brother, who came to town with me.</p>
<p>Prisoner's defence. They were sent to me from Bristol by a man who owed me some money.</p>
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Death </rs>
, aged 31.</p>
<p>First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron Hotham.</p>
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