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, on the King's highway, on the <rs id="t17871212-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">14th day of November</rs>
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last, and putting him in fear, and feloniously taking from his person, and against his will, five cotton waistcoat pieces, value 15 s. four dozen knives and forks, with plated ferrels, value 16 s. five dozen common ditto, value 10 s. 6 d. two dozen of table knives and forks, value 7 s. four dozen clasp ditto, value 12 s. 6 d. a carving knife and fork, value 18 d. a table steel, value 6 d. one dozen of scissars, value 4 s. his property </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.</p>
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were indicted for the same robbery.</p>
<p>The prosecutor positively swore to these prisoners as two of the men; but his time of seeing them being so very short, and by the light of the lamp, and being much frightened, and not able to swear to his property, the Jury did not think fit to depend on his single testimony; and the prisoners were BOTH <rs id="t17871212-1-verdict4" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17871212-1-verdict4" type="verdictCategory" value="notGuilty"></interp>
ACQUITTED </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.</p>
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