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on the King's highway, on the <rs id="t17830115-6-cd45" type="crimeDate">8th of January</rs>
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instant, and putting him in fear and danger of his life, and taking from his person and against his will, a pair of copper shoe buckles plated with silver, value 6 d. one copper farthing, and a silver sixpence, his goods and monies </rs>
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, a Negro, sworn.</p>
<p>I know the prisoner; I was robbed on<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178301150013"></xptr>
Wednesday evening last about half after eight, in the road from the <rs type="placeName" id="t17830115-6-crimeloc46">Horse-ferry, Limehouse</rs>
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, I lost a six-pence, a farthing, and the buckles out of my shoes; the prisoner at the bar was the person that robbed me, I never saw him before, it was a grey light, there was a little glimmer of the moon, but in a cloud as it were.</p>
<p>Court. Can you be sure of the person of the man, never having seen him before? - I swore to the man before he was searched, before the buckles my property were found upon him.</p>
<p>In what way did he rob you? - I had been out a little while in the evening, and as I was returning home, just as I came by Mr. Turner's stable door, one man passed me and stopped, I then suspected my danger, seeing this man and another appear at the same time, there were three men in the whole; I was going to pass them, they offered to give me the wall; I saw the prisoner jog the other man with his elbow just as he was a-breast of me, and the other man jumped behind me, and this man before me, each of them put a knife to my neck, saying, you bugger if you speak a word, your head is off that minute; I told them, says I, gentlemen I will not; with that, this man asked me what money I had, I told him I had but one six-pence, and one crooked farthing, he asked me where it was, I went to put my hand into my pocket to take it out for him, and he pushed my hand away and took it himself; then he spoke another word that I really did not understand then, but I soon understood that it was to see if I had a watch; I told him, the 31st of July last I lost a watch, and I had never a one; he asked me what I had got here: I had a pair of buck skin breeches with leather strings; then he went down to my shoes, and says, what are these? I said they are a pair of plate, in my fright that I was in; says the prisoner that is what we want, I recovered myself from my fright, and says I, gentlemen they are only plated; nevertheless he took them out of my shoes; then he arose from my feet, and clapped his knife to my neck; the other man every now and then jogging his hand to appear to be in earnest: after that says the prisoner at the bar, now says he if you do not swear by the bible, that you will not speak a word about it for half an hour, I will cut your head off now; I said I would not; the other man said to him give him the six-pence, he said he would not: after the prisoner with <rs type="persName" id="t17830115-6-person121"> <interp inst="t17830115-6-person121" type="role" value=""></interp>
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the knife from my neck, the other man kept his knife to my neck till I was obliged to make the same promise upon the same oath; then he turned about to go both together towards the man that stood alone while they were plundering of me; I let them go a little way, till I thought I had room enough to retreat in case of a second attack; I then cried out, Stop thief! a gentleman and a little lad coming along at the same time, I said, Sir, I have been robbed by them rascals that passed by this minute, and if you will go along with me I do not doubt but I will take one of them yet; the gentleman promised he would, we both turned back together; the prisoner and the other were then gone partly out of sight, the other man stood his ground, I came up to him; I had a good solid cane in my hand, and I began to be-labour him; the gentleman retreated with all possible speed as soon as he saw I had began to engage him; missing the gentleman, I followed him as quick as possible, fearing the return of the other men, and I ran away towards the corner; the man that I belaboured, followed me saying he would have satisfaction, I told him I was going to justice Sherwood's, and there I would give him what satisfaction he demanded, but that I expected before I went there to take one of the other men along with me, I set off with all speed, running round the narrow street, I met this man coming towards the end of the street, as soon as I met him, I looked at him very stedfastly, and he at me, as soon as I found I was right in the man, a took a step or two back, being determined<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178301150014"></xptr>
to keep a length between my cane and his head; he took to his heels, and I followed him, crying, Stop thief! he ran before me and cried Stop thief! too; I followed him to the corner, and he turned round to the left hand to go the water side, where I pursued him; then I left him in the hand of this man who was running before.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a Bricklayer by trade; I was set watch over a common sewer that was open at Ratcliffe-cross, I heard the cry of, Stop thief! I saw nobody but the prisoner upon the full run, I catched him by the collar; he had this stick in his hand, and was going to knock me down: it was that gentleman there. (Pointing to the prisoner.)</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I searched him, and I found this knife in his waistcoat pocket (a clasp knife produced,) and his protection, he told the justice he was running to make his escape from the press-gang; I searched him again, he said he would pull off his shirt, and under his left arm next his skin, I found one of the buckles.</p>
<p>(The buckle produced and deposed to by the prosecutor.)</p>
<p>Court to Prosecutor. What do you know the buckle by particularly? - I was coming up a pair of stairs and was like to slip, and I almost straightened it, I laid it on a heater and tried to bend it, and broke that piece out of the chape.</p>
<p>Prisoner to Heaton. In what situation was I when you took me? - He was running very hard, and there was no other creature in the street.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>It was a dark night, I was coming from Limehouse; it rained very hard, and I had my coat buttoned about me, and that buckle was in my surtoot pocket, and walking smart it hit against my knee, and I put it into my bosom.</p>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.</p>
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