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<p>274.
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<p>Did you know him before? - No, Sir,
<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178304300054"/> I saw him again that day three weeks, then I took him.</p>
<p>Court. I want to know whether you saw the things, or whether your mother told you that there were such things? - I am upon my oath, I saw him myself, there was an old cloth upon the line, he knocked that down, and I suppose did not think that worth taking; I was so weak, I could not get out to cry Stop thief! before he was gone; he broke three pales and got out.</p>
<p>Jury. How long time did you see him, at that time? - Not much above two minutes.</p>
<p>When did you see him again? - I was going out of my door that day three weeks, and saw this man at the very same pales, where he got over before, there is an alley close to the pales, I said nothing to him then, for there were a parcel of men playing at skittles; and he run away as fast as he could after he saw me.</p>
<p>Court. How came he to run from you, he had not seen you before when he took the things? - I cannot tell, Sir, but before I spoke to him, he ran away.</p>
<p>Were ever any of your things found? - No, the prisoner denied the fact, I asked him what he ran away for, he made me no answer.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>This witness said before the Justice, she had been light headed for two or three days, she said, she could not be positive that I was the person, then afterwards she said, I can swear to him; then said the Justice, I must commit him; then says she, you must not commit him.</p>
<p>Court. How came you to run away, when you saw this young woman? - I did not run away from her; there is a common necessary down there, and I went down there: I have not a friend in the world.</p>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p> </div1></div0>
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<p>274.
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<p>Court. I want to know whether you saw the things, or whether your mother told you that there were such things? - I am upon my oath, I saw him myself, there was an old cloth upon the line, he knocked that down, and I suppose did not think that worth taking; I was so weak, I could not get out to cry Stop thief! before he was gone; he broke three pales and got out.</p>
<p>Jury. How long time did you see him, at that time? - Not much above two minutes.</p>
<p>When did you see him again? - I was going out of my door that day three weeks, and saw this man at the very same pales, where he got over before, there is an alley close to the pales, I said nothing to him then, for there were a parcel of men playing at skittles; and he run away as fast as he could after he saw me.</p>
<p>Court. How came he to run from you, he had not seen you before when he took the things? - I cannot tell, Sir, but before I spoke to him, he ran away.</p>
<p>Were ever any of your things found? - No, the prisoner denied the fact, I asked him what he ran away for, he made me no answer.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>This witness said before the Justice, she had been light headed for two or three days, she said, she could not be positive that I was the person, then afterwards she said, I can swear to him; then said the Justice, I must commit him; then says she, you must not commit him.</p>
<p>Court. How came you to run away, when you saw this young woman? - I did not run away from her; there is a common necessary down there, and I went down there: I have not a friend in the world.</p>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p> </div1></div0>
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