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stealing, on the <rs id="t18170521-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">22d of April</rs>
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, one gelding, price 20l.; one mare, price 20l., the property of <rs type="persName" id="t18170521-1-victim49"> <interp inst="t18170521-1-victim49" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Edward Shepherd <interp inst="t18170521-1-victim49" type="surname" value="Shepherd"></interp>
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; and one coat, value 15s. </rs>
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. I am a <rs id="t18170521-1-viclabel3" type="occupation">farmer</rs>
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, and have a farm at <rs type="placeName" id="t18170521-1-crimeloc4">Yatten, in Berkshire</rs>
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. On the 21st of April, I had a light-brown mare and a black gelding - I saw them safe at six o'clock in the evening of that day; on the 23d I found them at Colnbrook, and the prisoner, who was in custody. He lived <rs id="t18170521-1-deflabel5" type="occupation">servant</rs>
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with me about a year, and went by the name of Sharpe.</p>
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. I am in Mr. Shepherd's service. On the evening of the 21st of April, I locked the horses safe in the stable, and put the key in the outhouse, which was not fastened-Mr. Shepherd's great coat hung up in the stable. The next morning the horses were gone.</p>
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. I live with Mr. Shepherd; I have known the prisoner twelve years, and lived with him at Mr. Shepherd's. On the morning of the 22d of April, about half-past four o'clock, I found the stable locks broken, and the horses gone.</p>
<p>JOHN HOLDERNESS. I am a constable of Langley. On the morning of the 22d of April I was told of the robbery, and about six o'clock I stopped the prisoner, with the horses, in the parish of Stanwell, on the MIddlesex side; the great coat was thrown over the mare, which the prisoner was riding. Mr. Shepherd saw the horses the next day and claimed them. The prisoner said he was going to take them to Mr. Butt, at Lambeth.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Q. Did I not ask you to go to the Borough, and would shew you the man - A. You said if I would go a mile or two, you would shew me the man they belonged to.</p>
<p>Q. Did I not say I had a note in my pocket - A. He did, but I found no note on him when I searched him. I told him I should detain him - He wanted me to go on.</p>
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. I am the son of <rs type="persName" id="t18170521-1-person55"> <interp inst="t18170521-1-person55" type="role" value=""></interp>
Edward Shep <interp inst="t18170521-1-person55" type="surname" value="Shep"></interp>
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herd, the coat is mine-my gloves were in the pocket - I had seen it safe on the night of the 21st of April. We live thirty-two miles from London, and thirty-five from Colnbrook.</p>
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. I live at Yatten, and have known the prisoner twelve years. On the 21st of April, I saw him at the sign of the Compasses, at Burnt-hill, which is about a mile from Mr. Shepherd's; he left there about a quarter after six in the evening.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence. A man of the name of Brown employed me to take them to town from Reading, he gave me a note with them, which was lost while I was being searched.</p>
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. Reading is twelve miles from where I live; the horses were not in my possession when the prisoner lived with me.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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DEATH </rs>
. Aged 22.</p>
<p>First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Bayley.</p>
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