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stealing a stand cock, belonging to a fire engine, value 40 s. </rs>
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. I am a publican: I was master of the workhouse at the time the stand cock was lost; I had the key of the engine house; the door was found open in the morning, and the cock was missing.</p>
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. I am engine keeper: about two months ago I had the alarm of a fire; I fetched the engine from the engine house, and when I came to the fire I missed the stand cock; I sent a man back to the engine house to look for it, but it could not be found; I saw it in the engine a week before; it is the part we put into the plug to supply the engine.</p>
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. I was a pauper in the work-house about ten months before; about three months ago, I am not positive what day, about nine o'clock, the two prisoners and I went to the engine house and broke the door open; we agreed to take the stand cock; it is a sold useful piece by itself; Bennet took it out and Price put it under his coat; we went to Mrs. Maylin's in Falconbridge-court; I had part of the money; it was paid in the public house; the cock had engraved out it, belonging to the workhouse of St. James's.</p>
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. I bought an old piece of metal of the prisoner Bennett, that they call a stand cock; it was broke and bruised when I bought it; I do not know that I ever saw the other prisoner.</p>
<p>Q. What weight was it?</p>
<p>Maylin. It is so long ago I cannot say; (a stand cock produced); it was not so perfect as this, it was broke, and not so long.</p>
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. I am schoolmaster to the Parish; I was before the Justice on Tuesday; Bennett confessed they took it, and wanted to be an evidence.</p>
<p>The prisoners said nothing in their defence.</p>
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