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stealing, on the
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The prisoner was taken with the cotton.
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Prisoner. I am a poor man, and belong to the sea; I was out of work and very hungry, and I saw the cotton lay, and I picked it up to get me two or three half-pence; I never did so before.
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Court. How old are you? - I do not know.
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Where do you come from? - From America.
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Court. It will be mercy to the prisoner to let him be
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Transported for seven years
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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