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last, eighty iron hoops, value 30 s. and sixty pounds weight of iron nails, value 20 s. </rs>
the goods of our Lord the King.</p>
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; and others.</p>
<p>A third Count for stealing the same things, only laying them to be the property of certain persons unknown.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>Do you remember at any time seeing the prisoner at the bar on Tower-hill? - Yes.</p>
<p>What passed at that time? - On the 13th of January, about eight o'clock, I saw the prisoner pass over the hill, as I was watching for some goods, I saw him with a bundle at his back, and I run up to him, and<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178302260031"></xptr>
asked him, what he had, he said, nothing; on examining him, I found it to be nails. (they are in Court.)</p>
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<p>I am a constable, I apprehended the prisoner a month ago last Sunday morning, about four o'clock; I apprehended him for stealing of hoops, and he gave us an account before the magistrate.</p>
<p>Was you present before the magistrate? Yes.</p>
<p>Was any thing taken down in writing? I do not know particularly whether it was or no, I heard him acknowledge carrying hoops belonging to King's-stairs into the stable, where the King's horses were, he brought them out of some store place in the victualling office, where the hoops were commonly kept, to the stable.</p>
<p>What hoops did he acknowledge stealing? - Two or three parcels, but I cannot tell how many they contained.</p>
<p>Were there any promises or threats to the man to make him confess this? - Not to my knowledge, we had been before, and searched three houses by his own confession, I never heard any body say any thing of that kind to him.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Council. Pray, friend, did you see these hoops that he talked of? - No.</p>
<p>Then all these hoops that you have been talking of, you never saw? - No.</p>
<p>You are quite sure that there was no promise made him? - Not to my knowledge.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a headborough, I apprehended the prisoner along with Wilkinson; I heard the prisoner acknowledge taking hoops; I went along with him to the places where he said they were sold, we did not find any, it was too late: there was no promise made him at all to my knowledge.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Council. What was the inducement for this man thus to make this confession without any kind of promise? - I cannot tell.</p>
<p>Did you ever see any hoops? - No.</p>
<p>Court. Where did he say he had taken the hoops from? - Out of some warehouse in the victualling office.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I believe you are one of the principal officers in his Majesty's cooperage? - Not principal.</p>
<p>Do you know this prisoner? - Yes.</p>
<p>What is he? - He is employed as a <rs id="t17830226-12-deflabel71" type="occupation">labourer</rs>
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, we have frequently lost large quantities of nails out of the cooperage shops, but as to hoops from their multitude we cannot say when we lose them; we found some in the horse pond in the cooperage; three parcels of them has the King's mark on them, two bundles has not, there appears to be about forty that has the King's mark on them.</p>
<p>Have you any knowledge at all how they came there? - Only by information.</p>
<p>Who was it from? - From a man who absconded, who was also a watchman; I was present when the prisoner was examined; the prisoner was to have been sent on board a man of war, when he was taken up for the nails; the Board understanding that one of their labourers and watchmen were taken up, desired me to go and look at them, but I could not swear to them; they threatened that he should be sent on board a man of war, he desired to make some discoveries, provided they would not let him go on board a man of war; they promised him, he then said, he had seen Garden and Bowyer take hoops, that he met them at a house in Spitalfields, and that the nails were given him by this Garden, and he was to be paid nine pence for carrying them: the Board discharged him, and sent him to the cooperage as usual. Garden, came two days afterwards to clear up his character, and in consequence of Garden's information, I searched the horse pond, and there I found two bundles of hoops.</p>
<p>Did you ever hear the prisoner say any thing about these hoops that were found in the horse pond? - No.</p>
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time for? - On the evidence of Bowyer who was an accomplice.</p>
<p>Was there any promise made him the second time that you know of? - No, there was not.</p>
<p>Court to Bell. Was it before or after he was examined before the Board? - It was after.</p>
<p>I believe he was first of all discharged by the commissioners? - Yes.</p>
<p>Then he was not in custody? - He was not in custody but of the press-gang.</p>
<p>What day was it he was discharged? - The fifteenth.</p>
<p>What day of the week was that? - I do not know what day of the week.</p>
<p>Court. Was it when you took him last time? - I never had any conversation after we took him up again.</p>
<p>Court. The evidence of an accomplice cannot be let in this case.</p>
<p>Court to Jury. Gentlemen of the Jury, the candour of the law will not permit any man to be led into a confession against himself, under the expectation of receiving favour by it; Bell has given us a very fair and candid account of what passed before the commissioners, from whence it appears, that this man made the discoveries that have been mentioned, under a promise that he should not be sent to sea; after that it would be improper for us to convict the man, whatever opinion we may form in our own minds.</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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