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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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On the 4th, about a quarter past eleven in the evening, I was
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, and at eleven o'clock I laid down, I put down four sixpences, and sixteen copper halfpence; the prisoner came in and asked if his ass was gone through, I told him no, he said he would leave his basket, and go back and look for his ass; he went a few paces, and turned back for his ass as I thought, and he turned back again and came in, I then thought of the money that lay there, I got up to look, and I missed it, and I detained the prisoner, I called the watchmen, and they came, I told them that I missed my money, and I suspected the prisoner; he was searched and there was money found about him, which I thought looked very much like my money, but I cannot be sworn to it; there was more money found about him than I had lost.
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Had any body else been into the the toll house, after you had put down the money? - Not to my knowledge.
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Had you fallen asleep? - I do not know, I believe I had not.
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Can you say positively you had not? - No, I would not say positively.
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Then you cannot swear that nobody else came in? - No, I cannot, as the door was open, I knew the prisoner before, by going through the gate most days.
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Alderman Sanderson. Were there sixpences found upon him? - Yes.
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How many? - Four.
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Mr. Peatt, Prisoner's Counsel. It is usual for you to lay several hours on this couch? - It is for that purpose.
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It is very usual for you to lay dosing on this couch, half asleep and half awake? - Yes.
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In a total uncertainty of what passes? - Yes.
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I was crying the hour; I heard somebody call watch; I went to the turnpike at Pimlico, and the prosecutor had hold of the prisoner, and gave me charge of him;
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there were sixpences, and two groats in halfpence; he had it about him; I believe he had some in his shoes; he was not willing to be searched without a constable; he pulled his coat and his apron off: I pulled two sixpences and a shilling out of his breeches pocket: Mr. Low said he would swear to one of the sixpences in his waistcoat pocket; I took out ninepence halfpenny in halfpence, then I took two sixpences and one shilling out of his right shoe; and the prosecutor said he would swear to one of these sixpences.
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Prosecutor. I cannot swear to money; there is one with a hole in it, very much like one that I took; but I take more of that sort.
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Mr. Peatt. Sixpences with holes are very common? - I took two within the month.
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I was called to the assistance of the prosecutor, I saw the prisoner searched, and one of the sixpences was a remarkable small one, and the other with a hole.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I know nothing of the affair; I had been out with my goods that day, and coming home I got rather drunk, and I did not know what I was about; I came to the turnpike gate, and I asked the man to let me leave these baskets there; I knew nothing of the money being in my shoe; I was in liquor; I took several shillings that day, and sixpences too.
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The prisoner called five witnesses who gave him a very good character.
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Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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