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stealing thirty-seven pounds weight of sugar, value 24 s. </rs>
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receiving the same well knowing it to have been stolen </rs>
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was called and did not appear.</p>
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, and I, took a large piece of sugar out of Mr Robinson's shop.</p>
<p>Q. Where does Mr Robinson live?</p>
<p>Coltis. He lives in <rs type="placeName" id="t17590117-34-crimeloc202">Goswell-street</rs>
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<p>Q. What is his business?</p>
<p>Coltis. He is a <rs id="t17590117-34-viclabel203" type="occupation">Grocer</rs>
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.</p>
<p>Q. How long have you been acquainted with Smith and Blaze?</p>
<p>Coltis. I have been acquainted with them from four days before Christmas.</p>
<p>Q. Where did you first become acquainted?</p>
<p>Coltis. At an Ale-house in Chick-lane.</p>
<p>Q. Had you known neither of them before the time you speak of?</p>
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before, but I had never been acquainted with him to keep him company: he lived by us.</p>
<p>Q. How long have you known him?</p>
<p>Coltis. I have known him four years?</p>
<p>Q. How came you to take this sugar?</p>
<p>Coltis. We happen'd to go by the door and saw an opportunity; so Blaze went in and took it.</p>
<p>Q. Did you go in?</p>
<p>Coltis. No.</p>
<p>Q. Where were the people of the shop?</p>
<p>Coltis. They where in a little back room.</p>
<p>Q. Where did the sugar stand?</p>
<p>Coltis. It stood upon the counter: (great part of a large lump of sugar produced in court) this is it.</p>
<p>Q. Could you see it to be sugar before you took it?</p>
<p>Coltis. No: it was in a blue paper.</p>
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Q. What did Smith and you do, while Blaze went in for it?</p>
<p>Coltis. We stood at the door.</p>
<p>Q. Had you been together all that day?</p>
<p>Coltis. We kept together all the time, from four days before Christmas to that time.</p>
<p>Q. Where were you going when you went by this shop?</p>
<p>Coltis. We were going to see what we could get.</p>
<p>Q. What was done when Blaze brought the sugar out?</p>
<p>Coltis. Then we went down Bell-Alley, and so to the house where we lodged: <rs type="persName" id="t17590117-34-person365"> <interp inst="t17590117-34-person365" type="role" value=""></interp>
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and I lodged together; and after that we carried it to Mr Feathers's house.</p>
<p>Q. Where does he live?</p>
<p>Coltis. He lives at the corner of Black-Boy-Alley.</p>
<p>Q. What is hi s business?</p>
<p>Coltis. He keeps a Chandlers shop.</p>
<p>Q. Did you all go with it there?</p>
<p>Coltis. We did: and Smith and I went in.</p>
<p>Q. Did you see Feathers?</p>
<p>Coltis. He was not at home, so we left it 'till the next morning.</p>
<p>Q. Who did you see there?</p>
<p>Coltis. We saw his wife there.</p>
<p>Q. Did you make any bargain with her?</p>
<p>Coltis. No: but we sold it to him the next day.</p>
<p>Q. What time of the day?</p>
<p>Coltis. We went to him about ten or eleven o'clock, then he was at home, and said he had weighed it, and it weighed 36 or 37 pounds.</p>
<p>Q. How long have you known Feathers ?</p>
<p>Coltis. I never knew him before we carried things to sell.</p>
<p>Q. Had you sold things to him before this time ?</p>
<p>Coltis. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. What goods did you sell him?</p>
<p>Coltis. We sold tea to him.</p>
<p>Q. How often?</p>
<p>Coltis. I can't say how often.</p>
<p>Q. Did you ever sell him any thing before you became acquainted with Smith and Blaze ?</p>
<p>Coltis. No, never before.</p>
<p>Q. How often have you been with them to his house?</p>
<p>Coltis. Three or four times.</p>
<p>Q. What did he give you for this sugar?</p>
<p>Coltis. He gave us a groat a pound for it: We ask'd him six-pence.</p>
<p>Q. Did Smith and he seem to be acquainted ?</p>
<p>Coltis. Not much.</p>
<p>Q. Did he ask you how you came by it?</p>
<p>Coltis. Yes: he asked us whether we came honestly by it.</p>
<p>Q. What did you tell him?</p>
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told him he got it from his sister, and he was going on board of ship.</p>
<p>Q. Did he ask you any questions about it?</p>
<p>Coltis. No: he asked me no questions.</p>
<p>Q. Where did he pay you for it?</p>
<p>Coltis. In his shop.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do with the money?</p>
<p>Coltis. After we got home we equally divided it amongst us.</p>
<p>Cross Examination.</p>
<p>Q. Was Blaze capable of bringing that sugar out of the shop himself?</p>
<p>Coltis. Yes, very easily.</p>
<p>Q. In what manner?</p>
<p>Coltis. In his arms.</p>
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. I am Turnkey of New-Prison: Mr Fielding ordered me to go down to Feather's house; I went, and told him he had bought sugar and bacon of this evidence and another, the evidence was then with me; Feathers own'd it, and shewed us the sugar above stairs, and brought the sugar and bacon to Mr Fielding's that night.</p>
<p>Q. What business is Feathers ?</p>
<p>Elmore. He <rs id="t17590117-34-deflabel204" type="occupation">keeps a Chandlers-shop</rs>
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at the end of Black-Boy-Alley.</p>
<p>Q. Does he deal in sugar?</p>
<p>Elmore. He does: I saw some in his house: but I saw the sugar upon a table above-stairs, and he said it was the sugar that he bought of this evidence and Smith, and he had cut some of it off.</p>
<p>Q. What did he say before the Justice ?</p>
<p>Elmore. He own'd these two boys sold it to him.</p>
<p>Q. Was Smith and Blaze present when he brought the sugar there?</p>
<p>Elmore. No: they were in goal.</p>
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Q. Does any body in court know the value of the sugar?</p>
<p>A witness. This sugar is worth seven-pence a pound, that is the least to be sold in the wholesale way.</p>
<p>Smith'sdefence.</p>
<p>It is a great falsity to say that I was with them.</p>
<p>Blaze's defence.</p>
<p>I never saw him in my life before.</p>
<p>Feathers's defence.</p>
<p>I never saw these chaps in my shop in my life to my knowledge.</p>
<p>For Blaze.</p>
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. I have known Blaze four years, he worked for me three years, all but one month.</p>
<p>Q. What is your business?</p>
<p>Batchelor. I am a Smith: I have trusted him with pounds and pounds worth of work; I have sent home work by him, and he has brought me my money honestly; he would work from morning to night as hard as a horse: was he out of trouble I would employ him tonight.</p>
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. I have known Blaze ten years and better; he serv'd part of his time to the master I did.</p>
<p>Q. What is his character?</p>
<p>Twidle. He is a very honest lad, and very industrious as far as ever I saw; he has receiv'd many pounds of me and paid it away, and I don't know that he ever wrong'd me of a half-penny in my life.</p>
<p>For Feather's.</p>
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. I have known the prisoner Feathers twenty years; he is a very honest industrious man as any in England; he has been in town about ten years; I would trust him with an hundred pounds at any time: I am sure he would not be guilty of what is laid to his charge, did he know it to have been stolen.</p>
<p>Q. What do you think of a man giving four-pence a pound for sugar that is worth 7 d to sell again?</p>
<p>Feathers. If he was overseen, I can't think how it came about.</p>
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. I have known Feathers about four years.</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
<p>Andrews. He is a very honest man for whatever I have heard; I have laid out pounds with him, and should have no scruple in trusting him.</p>
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. I have known Feathers four years, he is a very honest man; I never knew any thing to the contrary, and he is a very industrious man; I would trust him with every thing I have in the world.</p>
<p>Q. Do you live near him?</p>
<p>Hunt. I am his next door neighbour.</p>
<p>Q. Was you one of his bail?</p>
<p>Hunt. No; but if I had been at home, I would have been one.</p>
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. I have known Feathers between three and four years</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
<p>Williams. He always behaved like an honest man, every body respected him in the neighbourhood; I think he deserved that character; I would have trusted him with an hundred pounds at any time.</p>
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. I have known him about three years and a half.</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
<p>Box. He is a very honest man; he has bought 10, 12, or 15 quarters of malt at a time, of me; he carrys on brewing; I should have made no scruple in trusting him for 100 quarters of malt. I have traded with him also for coals; I was a good deal astonished when I heard of this.</p>
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. I have known him about four years, ever since he came into that neighbourhood.</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
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I should not have believe it; I should not have suspected him in the least. I have had some hundred weight of cheese of him, he dealt largely; he has had half a ton at a time, of cheese.</p>
<p>Q. Do you deal in sugar?</p>
<p>Potts. I do.</p>
<p>Q. What is this sugar worth?</p>
<p>Potts. I could not buy such as this for sevenpence a pound.</p>
<p>Q. Suppose a person was to come and sell you that lump for four pence a pound; how should you think of it?</p>
<p>Potts. I should think that person did not come honestly by it; this man is a man of character, substance, and honesty, for whatever I heard.</p>
<p>Q. Do you keep your sugar in your shop, or up stairs?</p>
<p>Potts. If I have it not in the shop I have it up stairs; but he has cheese and goods up stairs, a deal.</p>
<p>Q. Was you ever in his chamber above?</p>
<p>Potts. No, never.</p>
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. I know Feathers to be a very honest man.</p>
<p>Q. How long have you known him?</p>
<p>Latham. I have known him three years; he is a neighbour.</p>
<p>Jos. Capper. I have known Feathers above ten years.</p>
<p>Q. What is his character?</p>
<p>Capper. A very honest man; I have had particular instances to think him so. I have serv'd him with goods, and have omitted putting goods two several times in the bill of parcels; he had honesty enough to bring me the bills of parcels, and the money for what I had omitted. Upon that account, I should have trusted him with a thousand pounds; was he discharged, if he gave me an order for fifty pound's worth of goods, I'd send them in.</p>
<p>Mr. Allen. I believe I have known him seven years.</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
<p>Allen. An honest industrious man, as any on earth, I believe.</p>
<p>Mr. Matthews. I have known him about two years last year I had some dealings with him.</p>
<p>Q. Where do you live?</p>
<p>Matthews. I live in the country; he always paid his bills regularly; I always had the opinion of him to be an honest man.</p>
<p>Hen. Tape. I live in Fee-lane; I have known him three years.</p>
<p>Q. What is his character?</p>
<p>Tape. That of an honest industrious man, as ever I knew in my life; I think he deserves that character as well as any man in England: I have gone past his house two or three times a-day, I always saw him to work and slave.</p>
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. I have known him ever since he came to the house he lives in, that is about four years ago.</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
<p>Bennett. He is a very honest industrious man: I live just by him, and known his industry; he is very well respected in the neighbourhood.</p>
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Francis Feathers <interp inst="t17590117-34-person378" type="surname" value="Feathers"></interp>
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. I have known him ever since he was born.</p>
<p>Q. What is his character?</p>
<p>Feathers. An undeniable character; there can't be a harder working man than he is.</p>
<p>Q. If you have known him so long, do you think he is capable to be drawn in to buy stolen goods by a parcel of boys?</p>
<p>Feathers. I cannot answer for that; he might have had any credit that he would require; we can bring an hundred credible tradesmen to his character all out of London; he is a man of substance, and lives in as much credit as any man in London; he is a brewer as well as keeps a chandler's shop.</p>
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. Feathers, and I, were born and bred in one parish.</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
<p>Brown. He is a very honest industrious man; I should have no scruple in trusting him with all I am worth.</p>
<p>Q. Have you known him in London?</p>
<p>Brown. I have; we both came up in one year.</p>
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the prosecutor was call'd again on his recognizance, but did not appear.</p>
<p>Q. to Elmore. When was you sent by Justice Fielding to Feather's house?</p>
<p>Elmore. Last Tuesday was seven-night; Coltis went with me by the Justice's order.</p>
<p>Q. Did you hear Feathers say what he gave for the sugar?</p>
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Elmore. He said he gave at the rate of a groat a pound for it, and said he had us'd some of it, and taken it from off the top; he was committed that night to New-prison; the next day he was brought up again with the two boys at the bar, and the evidence.</p>
<p>Q. Did you go with Feathers to goal the first time?</p>
<p>Elmore. I did; I took him there in a coach along with Coltis, the other two prisoners were there before.</p>
<p>Q. When you carried Feathers there did he and the other prisoners seem to know one another?</p>
<p>Elmore. The two boys were lock'd up that night; before the justice Blaze said he was concerned in taking the sugar and tea, but denied taking the bacon. Smith said nothing.</p>
<p>Q. Where did you take up Blaze?</p>
<p>Elmore. I took him in the same room where I had before taken Smith and Coltis.</p>
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acquitted </rs>
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was a 2 d time indicted for <rs id="t17590117-34-off206" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17590117-34-off206" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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stealing eight pounds weight of bacon, value 2 s. 8 d. </rs>
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reciving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen </rs>
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. I live in <rs type="placeName" id="t17590117-34-crimeloc209">Hoxton-square</rs>
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<p>Q. Do you deal in bacon?</p>
<p>Winsley. I do. A piece of bacon produced in court.</p>
<p>Q. Look at this piece of bacon.</p>
<p>Winsley. I lost such a like piece of bacon as this.</p>
<p>Q. When?</p>
<p>Winsley. I believe it was on Sunday was seven-night at night; and the boys tell me they took it out of my shop that night.</p>
<p>Q. When did you miss it?</p>
<p>Winsley. I did not miss it till the Monday morning.</p>
<p>Cross Examination.</p>
<p>Q. What do you call that piece?</p>
<p>Winsley. This is a hock of bacon.</p>
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. Smith and I were together last Sunday was seven-night, at night at Hoxton; Smith held the prosecutor's door open, and I went in and took this bacon out.</p>
<p>Q. Was any body in the shop?</p>
<p>Coltis. No.</p>
<p>Q. In what part of the shop did it lie?</p>
<p>Coltis. It lay upon a shelf on the right-hand side.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do with it afterwards?</p>
<p>Coltis. We carried it to Feathers's house that same night.</p>
<p>Q. What! on a Sunday-night?</p>
<p>Coltis. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Was this before, or after, taking the sugar?</p>
<p>Coltis. This was after that.</p>
<p>Q. How long after?</p>
<p>Coltis. I can't tell.</p>
<p>Q. Did you find Feathers at home?</p>
<p>Coltis. We did; we ask'd him if he would buy the bacon.</p>
<p>Q. Was his shop open?</p>
<p>Coltis. No: we knock'd at the door, and he open'd it and let us in; he said he had bacon enough, but he ask'd the price of it; we ask'd him a groat a pound, it being a hock.</p>
<p>Q. Look at this bacon. He takes it in his hand.</p>
<p>Coltis. This is the the same bacon.</p>
<p>Q. What did he give you a pound for it?</p>
<p>Coltis. He gave us two-pence a pound for it; and there was a little sat bit that he gave us five-pence a pound for.</p>
<p>Q. How much was there of that?</p>
<p>Coltis. There was about two pounds and a half of it.</p>
<p>Q. Did he ask you any questions how you came by it?</p>
<p>Coltis. No, none at all.</p>
<p>Q. What time of the night was it that you was at his house?</p>
<p>Coltis. I can't say indeed.</p>
<p>Q. What time did you go out upon your business that day?</p>
<p>Coltis. We had been out about three or four hours before we took the bacon, and we went out about five o'clock.</p>
<p>Q. Did Feathers pay you for the bacon that night?</p>
<p>Coltis. He did.</p>
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Q. What did he give you?</p>
<p>Coltis. He gave us half a crown in all.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do with the money?</p>
<p>Coltis. I and Smith divided it.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do after you had sold the bacon?</p>
<p>Coltis. We went home to our lodging.</p>
<p>Q. When were you taken up?</p>
<p>Coltis. We were taken up last Tuesday was a week in the morning, that was the next day but one after we sold the bacon; we were taken out of our beds by <rs type="persName" id="t17590117-34-person387"> <interp inst="t17590117-34-person387" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, and carried that morning before Justice Fielding; the Justice ask'd us where we were taken up? I told him at such a house; he committed me as an evidence, and he sent Elmore and me to the shops where we had stole these things from; Elmore ask'd the people if they had lost any thing? and they said they had.</p>
<p>Q. Did the prosecutor say he had lost any thing?</p>
<p>Coltis. He said he had lost such a piece of bacon as this.</p>
<p>Q. Did you go to Feathers's?</p>
<p>Coltis. We did; and the prosecutor Winsley along with us, he bought the bacon of Feathers.</p>
<p>Q. to prosecutor. Did you see the bacon at the prisoner Feathers's house?</p>
<p>Prosecutor. I went to Feathers's house at about seven or eight at night; I took a basket and a few greens in it. I ask'd him if he had a bit of bacon to fell, and said I had got a few nice greens; I looked about and saw a hock of bacon, I took it down, and said, What will you have for this? I view'd it very well; he sold it me at four-pence a pound. I took that to Justice Fielding's.</p>
<p>Q. Are you sure that is the hock that you bought of Feathers?</p>
<p>Prosecutor. This is the very same: (if it is not mine it is like it.)</p>
<p>Q. toColtis. Look at this bacon, do you know it?</p>
<p>Coltis. I am sure this is the same bacon that I took out of the prosecutor's shop; and Feathers own'd before the Justice, that he bought this bacon of Smith and me.</p>
<p>Cross Examination.</p>
<p>Q. How came you to know it to be the same bacon, and the man that you say owns it does not know it?</p>
<p>Coltis. Mr Feathers own'd it to be the same?</p>
<p>Q. Is there any marks by which you know it?</p>
<p>Coltis. Because here is a slit underneath it; turning it up and showing it.</p>
<p>Q. to Elmore. Did you hear Feathers own this to be the bacon that the two boys sold him?</p>
<p>Elmore. I did; and own'd before the Justice he gave two-pence a pound for it.</p>
<p>Q. Did he say when he bought it?</p>
<p>Elmore. He did; he said he bought it on Sunday was seven-night at night; I took the two boys in bed, along with two women.</p>
<p>Smith's defence.</p>
<p>It is a great falsity, I never saw Coltis before in my life, only once at the White-Lion by Cow-cross; and that night he went home to bed with me, and Elmore came and took us up.</p>
<p>Q. to Coltis. How old are you?</p>
<p>Coltis. I am between 17 and 18 years of age.</p>
<p>Feathers said nothing in his defence.</p>
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a 2 d time, for <rs id="t17590117-34-off212" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17590117-34-off212" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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stealing 14 ounces of green tea, value 7 s. and five ounces of bohea tea, and two tin cannisters </rs>
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. ||</p>
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. I live in <rs type="placeName" id="t17590117-34-crimeloc213">Hoxton-square</rs>
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<p>Q. Do you deal in tea?</p>
<p>Russel. I do.</p>
<p>Q. Did you lose any?</p>
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at night, between 6 and 7 in the evening.</p>
<p>Q. How much?</p>
<p>Russel. About 14 ounces of green and 5 of bohea, in two cannisters.</p>
<p>Q. Was you at home at the time?</p>
<p>Russel. I was not; my wife sent for me, she miss'd it in about five minute's time; I know nothing who took them, no more than what Coltis tells me.</p>
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. Betwixt 6 and 7 o'clock on Monday night, I and the two prisoners went that way; the prosecutor's door was latch'd; I went in and handed one of the cannisters to Blaze; then I went in and got the other, then we went away together.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do with it?</p>
<p>Coltis. We put it all out into a handkerchief together before we got home.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do that for?</p>
<p>Coltis. Because no body should find the cannisters upon us.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do with them?</p>
<p>Coltis. We throw'd them away, and went directly to our lodgings, and left it on the table in the handkerchief all night, and went to bed; we were taken up on the next morning.</p>
<p>Q. Did Blaze lie with Smith and you?</p>
<p>Coltis. No, he went home to his lodgings about nine or ten o'clock.</p>
<p>Q. Where did he lodge?</p>
<p>Colt is. In Barbican.</p>
<p>Q. Did he take any tea home with him?</p>
<p>Coltis. No; we designed to have sold it the next day, and then divide the money; Blaze was taken up the same day.</p>
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. This I found on a table at the boys bed's soot, when I took them up. Producing a handkerchief with tea in it. Coltis said he took some from an old woman in Old-street, and some from the prosecutor's in Hoxton-square.</p>
<p>Q. How much is there of it?</p>
<p>Elmore. Here is two pounds and an ounce handkerchief and all; when the evidence had given an account that Blaze was with them, the Justice sent me after him. I went to his lodging in Barbican, but not meeting with him, I went to the house where I took up the boys, and while I was in the room, Blaze came in at the back door, so I took him there. I told him he had been stealing sugar, tea, and bacon, and must go along with me. He said he was not concerned in the bacon; he was only concerned in tea and sugar; I ask'd him whose handkerchief it was that the tea was in? he said it was his own, and he wanted it again.</p>
<p>Smith's defence.</p>
<p>I know nothing of it.</p>
<p>Blaze's defence.</p>
<p>I know nothing of it.</p>
<p>For Blaze.</p>
<p>Mr Cattle. I have known Blaze 8 or 9 years, he is a very sober lad, he work'd along with me, I never heard the least blemish of him in my life.</p>
<p>Q. What are you?</p>
<p>Cattle. I am a scale maker.</p>
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. I have known him about 12 months.</p>
<p>Q. What is his general character?</p>
<p>Price. Always a good sober honest man, as far as ever I heard of him.</p>
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guilty </rs>
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