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, was indicted for <rs id="t17891209-14-off74" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17891209-14-off74" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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stealing, on the <rs id="t17891209-14-cd75" type="crimeDate">19th of November</rs>
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, fifty-six pounds weight of lead, value 8 s. belonging to <rs type="persName" id="t17891209-14-victim199"> <interp inst="t17891209-14-victim199" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, and fixed to his dwelling-house </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I live in <rs type="placeName" id="t17891209-14-crimeloc76">Devonshire-square</rs>
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; I am the mere prosecutor; I know nothing of the robbery.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a victualler. I was constable of the night, on a Thursday night, the prisoner was brought to the watch-house, by one <rs type="persName" id="t17891209-14-person202"> <interp inst="t17891209-14-person202" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, a patrol, with the lead in a basket; the prisoner said he was a <rs id="t17891209-14-deflabel77" type="occupation">master bricklayer</rs>
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, then he said he found it in the yard. The next day I went to Mr. Ascough, a plumber, and told him I had a man in custody with a quantity of lead, and Mr. Ascough had the lead in his possession and took it to Mr. Pott.</p>
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<p>I am one of the patrol of Portsoken Ward: on the 19th of October, on Wednesday, I took the prisoner with a basket, in Aldgate High-street, and the lead in the basket; I asked him what he had got there; and he said, what's that to you? he said he was a master bricklayer, and was working task-work in Devonshire-street, it was part of a cistern; I took him and the lead to the watch-house; the next morning I took the lead to Mr. Pott's house, after it was taken to the Lord Mayor, the constable had it in possession; I saw the lead examined at Mr. Pott's; it was taken from the back part of the house, and exactly corresponded with the place where it was taken from.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a plumber; on Thursday the 19th of November (the last witness made a mistake in the month) the prisoner at the bar and two other of my people had been changing the lead from the sewer and the cellar to the yard; we had taken up between five and six hundred weight of lead at Mr. Pott's, when we are taking up old lead I always attend; it was lead that was to carry the waste water off, we could not take it<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178912090025"></xptr>
away till the bricklayer had cleared the way, it laying under the pavement; when we came from breakfast the ground was cleared and we took away what we could get at, but this lay near the cellar window. I wanted to persuade the prisoner to lay a few more bricks that I might get some new lead in, but he would not stay; the next morning the prisoner did not come, upon which he was suspected, and I heard he was in the watch-house, I went and examined it, and found it was the lead that was taken from the cellar window; there was another piece in the basket which matched with the first piece I took, they exactly fitted, and I tried it at Mr. Pott's, and they exactly corresponded with the nails; they had neither of them been separated from the houses by any of my men; I received the lead from the constable who brought it from the watch-house, or his man, <rs type="persName" id="t17891209-14-person205"> <interp inst="t17891209-14-person205" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, the constable had the care of the lead afterwards.</p>
<p>(The lead produced.)</p>
<p>This is the piece belonging to the window sill, this was cut by our men: this lay under the pavement, we could not get at it without digging, I am positive this lead came from Mr. Pott's cellar window; when a piece of lead is put down we drive the nails at no regular distance; I don't think it would correspond with any other cellar window but this.</p>
<p>Prisoner. That woman and I was going down Devonshire-street, and we found this basket at the corner of Devonshire-court, with the lead in it.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Transported for seven years </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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