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last and Stealing one Silver Watch the
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29th. of October following and stealing One
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Taken the
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Who Saith That the last Offence where with he
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Stands Charged he is entirely innocent of And
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Saith That he had a Watch with a Cypher on
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which he sold to one
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Shillings at the house of Mrs. Mason the
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the corner of the said Street That on Saturday
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Morning or Sunday Morning he cannot tell
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which (but how long ago he cannot tell) he was in
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Liquor and went up the one pair of Stairs backwards
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together with the Street door and went into the
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back room and poverty led him to
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take a Silver
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lying on a Bed in the same room which said
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