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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17960622-54-cd307" type="crimeDate">26th of May</rs>
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, 3lb. of soap, value 1s. 6d. </rs>
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<p>I am a <rs id="t17960622-54-viclabel308" type="occupation">soap-boiler</rs>
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, I reside in <rs type="placeName" id="t17960622-54-crimeloc309">Bishopsgate-street</rs>
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, and had been ten months; I stopped him in the gateway with the soap in his possession, secreted within his smock frock; I told him he had some soap in his frock, and he produced it immediately and hoped I would forgive him; there were three pieces of soap which weighed 3lb. the value 1s about 2s. 6d. I knew the soap immediatley, we were cutting up a boil of soap at that time; I compared it with the boil of soap at that time; I compared it with the boil of soap we were then cutting up, and it corresponded immediately.</p>
<p>Q. Did you tell him it would be better for him to confess? - A. No, not a word; I have not the smallest doubt of its being mine.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am servant to Mr. Pugh; the prisoner was making himself ready to go to his work; the men were going to load the cart at the door, I went with them; as soon as the prisoner saw us all together, he went up into his room, and I suspected that he had taken some soap up stairs.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I leave my defence to my country.(Five witnesses were called by the prisoner, who gave him a good character for honesty and industry.)</p>
<p>GUILTY, (Aged 32.)</p>
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Confined three months in Newgate </rs>
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fined 1s. </rs>
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recommended to mercy by the Jury </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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