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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t18000115-79-cd466" type="crimeDate">13th of December</rs>
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, a pound of wool, value 4s. </rs>
the property of certain persons to the Jurors unknown.</p>
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JOHN HALL <interp inst="t18000115-79-person675" type="surname" value="HALL"></interp>
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sworn - On the 13th of December, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, I caught the prisoner taking wool out of a bag, between <rs type="placeName" id="t18000115-79-crimeloc467">Cox and Hammond's Quay</rs>
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, I saw him stop and pull it out of the bag of wool that was lying there under my care; I am a servant at the waterside; I took charge of him, I caught him with the wool upon him; there was some in his hat, some in his breeches, and the rest in his hand.</p>
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sworn. - I am one of the watchmen upon the wharf: I was called by Mr. Hall to assist in securing the prisoner; I took the wool from him, and gave him to the constable; I saw some wool fall from his trowsers; I took him to the Compter, and there I found secreted in his hat a quantity more. (The constable produced the wool).</p>
<p>Prisoner's defence. I beg mercy of the Court.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
(Aged 58.)</p>
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Confined six months in Newgate </rs>
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fined 1s </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE.</p>
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