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on the seventeenth of July Instant
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between the hours of one and two o'Clock in the Morning and
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upon examinig the Locks of Warehouses there discovered that of
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they thereupon went into the Warehouse and in the Cellar
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who immediately upon their
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coming in Undeavoured to conceal himself behind a Cask that
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stood in the Cellar where
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secured him That upon Informants asking the Prisoner
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his Business there he told them that he had been hired
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by a Man whose Name he did not knew to cary some
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bundles which were in the Cellar to
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Rother
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the
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that near the Prisoner stood two Bundles containing
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77 Pounds weight of Sugar which appeared to have
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been fresh packed up and taken out of a Cask standing
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