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| Verdict | Not Guilty |
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350. JAMES DAVIS was indicted for stealing on the 2d of March , nine feet of leaden pipe, value 9 s. belonging to Robert Risley , affixed to a certain building of his .
I live in Curtain Road, Shoreditch ; I lost nine feet of leaden pipe on Saturday night, on the same night the pigs were taken away, the pipe joins to the stable, joining to a cistern that stands in the yard fastened to the wall of the stable, it was to bring the water from the cistern to the yard; I never found it again, I knew the people that took the pigs away, I cannot say who took that away.
JOSHUA RALPH sworn.
On the 23d of February, Mrs. Risley sent for me, that there was a woman there that had come to give information, who had stole the pigs; I know nothing about the leaden pipe.
Not GUILTY .
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Lord KENYON.