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was indicted for
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, one hat, value 10s.
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, the goods of
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WILLIAM COOMBS. I am servant to Lord Rolle. On the 22d of April, in the morning, I lost my hat off the nail in the passage below stairs.
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. I am a constable. On the 22d of April I was in Grosvenor-square, and saw the prisoner standing in
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- I watched and saw him go down Lord Rolle's area there - He returned, I followed him into Mount-street, and asked him what was under his coat? he said it was a hat he had bought of a Jew in Oxford-street. I took him back to Lord Rolle's, where it was claimed.
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(Property produced and sworn to.)
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Prisoner's Defence. I bought it in Upper Grosvenor-street, of a Jew.
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. Aged 23.
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Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
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