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, a Handkerchief, value 3 s.
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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.
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