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stealing 26 lb. weight of tea, value 7 l.
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I am servant to a Mr. Territ who lives at London-wall. On the 24th of July I carried a large parcel to the
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I am book-keeper at the Oxford-arms. I received a truss from Hughes to go to Banbury; I did not know what the contents of it were.
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I am engine keeper of St. Andrew's Holbourn. On the 26th of July I saw the prisoner with a bundle under his arm in Union-court, Holbourn; he delivered it to
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, the bundle was broke, and the tea running out; she put it in her apron, then they parted; she went up Snow-hill, I followed her and got a constable, and she was apprehended with the bundle upon her head; this is the bundle.
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(The tea was deposed to by
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I took Chalkley; she said she was to carry the parcel to Smithfield; upon advertising it I found out the owner of it.
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PEDLEY's DEFENCE.
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I never saw the tea nor the woman till I was taken before the alderman.
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CHALKLEY's DEFENCE.
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Going along I met this man; he asked me to carry the parcel for him to the pitching place in Smithfield, he was to pay me for it; he bid me say before the alderman that I knew nothing of it.
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BOTH
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.
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[Imprisonment. See summary.]
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