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, of <rs type="placeName" id="t17221010-27-defloc139">St. James Westminster</rs>
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, a Handkerchief, value 3 s. </rs>
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last. Jame Barber deposed, that the last Execution day at night, standing in <rs type="placeName" id="t17221010-27-crimeloc142">Princes Street Leicester Fields</rs>
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, to hear 4 Boys play on the Violin, he felt the prisoners hand in his Pocket pulling out his Handkerchief; which taking hold of himself, he pull'd at one end, and the prisoner (keeping his hold) pulled at the other, till at last the prisoner twitch'd it through his Hand, and threw it behind him. He secur'd the prisoner, but could not find the Handkerchief again. <rs id="t17221010-27-verdict143" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17221010-27-verdict143" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
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Guilty to the value of 10 d. </rs>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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