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<p>Court. Have you any Body to prove that you kept Company with the Prisoners?</p>
<p>Simmonds. Yes, here's
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<p>Court. How came you to find out the Prosecutor?</p>
<p>Simmonds. I saw him afterwards going along the Road, and I told
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<p>Deily. I never lay in the Brick Fields fifty times in my Life.</p>
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<interp inst="t17330221-12-person99" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . The Day after the Prosecutor was robbed he sent for me, and I saw he had been beat and abus'd, and that his Head was broke.</p>
<p>Mr. Justice Hilder. Simmonds surrender'd himself voluntarily to me; I ask'd the Prisoners if they knew him, and they said, Yes.</p>
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<p>Court. Have you any Body to prove that you kept Company with the Prisoners?</p>
<p>Simmonds. Yes, here's
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<p>Court. How came you to find out the Prosecutor?</p>
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<p>Deily. I never lay in the Brick Fields fifty times in my Life.</p>
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<p>Mr. Justice Hilder. Simmonds surrender'd himself voluntarily to me; I ask'd the Prisoners if they knew him, and they said, Yes.</p>
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