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, on the King's highway, of a pair of silver shoe-buckles, value 5 s. the property of the said Henry
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, and live at Hammersmith. Between the 28th and 29th of July, about a quarter past twelve, coming to town, I was overtaken by two men in the parish of
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, between the two turnpikes, one of whom held a pistol to me, and demanded my money. I said I was a poor man, and had got but a little, which was hardly worth taking; the other put his hand to my pocket and took out fifteen shillings, then he demanded my watch: he with the pistol said he knew I had got one. I said I had no watch. He said he was sure I had more money. I said I had no more, and desired they would not use me ill. I gave him then my halfpence; but he said, D - n the halfpence, and gave me them again. He that did not hold the pistol took my silver buckles out of my shoes. They then bid me go about my business. I went on. It was so dark, that I cannot particularly swear to the men. One was in a surtout coat, and one of them was taller than the other. The tallest is the evidence: the short one took my buckles.
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. I am a cooper by trade. I have known the prisoner a little better than twelve months; he was concerned with me on the 28th of July. We were coming from London, and stood at a gate till the prosecutor came by us; we let him pass a little way, then we followed, and I bid him stop. I had a pistol. I asked him for his money, he told me he had but very little; he gave it me. There was a nine-shilling piece, a half-crown, there shillings and six-pence, all bad money; there was none good; we could not pass any of it. The prisoner took his buckles out of his shoes. We went into a public-house, and had but one shilling, which was my own, that would go. I was taken this day six weeks, and the prisoner about three days after, by the information of a girl. I had given information of him before, but did not know where he was.
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. We had information from a woman that lived with Troy of the prisoner being in Marybone-fields. I and
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, a witness here, with him. In searching them, I found a bad half-crown on
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Prosecutor. This was my half-crown. (Holding it in his hand.) The silver is worn off on one side. It is copper. I have had this half-crown in my pocket for two years and upwards. The money was all bad that I had in my pocket. We sell fish by candle-light at Billinsgate-market, and at times I had taken that bad money, and as I was going to London, I put that in my pocket, thinking it would serve a thief as well as good money. I never offered to put them off.
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. A girl came and gave information to me that this
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was going to carry something to the prisoner. I bid her go with her, and we would follow her. They went up into Marybone-fields, where I lost sight of them once. I set Noaks to watch, and we soon saw her again. Then she told me the prisoner was lying on the grass under a lamp. I went with her. About twenty yards before she came to him, she said, There he is, lying as before. I bid her go on, and if she was sure he was the person, to give me a touch on the arm; which she did, and I secured him: as the evidence, Troy, had told us he had a pocket pistol, I secured his hands, and found this pistol in his pocket, and a pocket-book. (Both produced in Court.) We took him in a coach, and brought him to town.
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. I was twenty yards from the prisoner when he was taken. I had been in his company the night before, when the prisoner gave me this bad half-crown for a night's lodging with him. I had known him about a fortnight before.
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Q. to the Prosecutor. Did you ever find your buckles again?
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Prosecutor. No.
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The pistol was not found upon me. I have no friends here. I come from Bath. I was never in company with the evidence, neither did I give the half-crown to the girl.
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There were two other indictments against him for
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, in a chariot, one of her pocket-book, and the other of a silk purse, and four guineas
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