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JOHN SMITH <interp inst="t18180506-92-defend810" type="surname" value="SMITH"></interp>
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stealing, on the <rs id="t18180506-92-cd517" type="crimeDate">31st of March</rs>
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, one coat, value 5s., the goods of <rs type="persName" id="t18180506-92-victim812"> <interp inst="t18180506-92-victim812" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
James Wright <interp inst="t18180506-92-victim812" type="surname" value="Wright"></interp>
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John James Wright <interp inst="t18180506-92-victim814" type="surname" value="Wright"></interp>
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<p>JOHN JAMES WRIGHT. I am nine years of age. On the 31st of March I was in St. John-street, and met the prisoner at the top of Cow-cross, he gave me a knife, and gave my brother thirty-two songs; he said, "Come along with me and I will give you a ship." He got me into <rs type="placeName" id="t18180506-92-crimeloc518">St. John-square</rs>
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, pulled my coat off, and my brother's also, and ran away - I lost sight of him. I am sure he is the boy.</p>
<p>JAMES WRIGHT. I am father of the last witness. On the 31st of March, about seven o'clock in the evening, my wife told me my sons had been robbed of their coats-the little one had his returned. On the 12th of April I sent the last witness to the top of St. John-street, on an errand. he met the prisoner at the top of West-street, and got him secured, and brought to me. As we were going along he said he was the <rs id="t18180506-92-deflabel519" type="occupation">boy</rs>
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who took the coat, and that he had pledged it at Peachey's, in Goswell-street, for 4s. 6d.</p>
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HENRY PEACHEY <interp inst="t18180506-92-person815" type="surname" value="PEACHEY"></interp>
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. I am a pawnbroker, and live in Goswell-street. I took the coat in pledge of the prisoner on the 31st of March.</p>
<p>(Property produced and sworn to.)</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
. Aged 13.</p>
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Transported for Seven Years </rs>
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<p>Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.</p>
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