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<p>723.
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<persName id="t18100919-97-person823"> SARAH YATES
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<interp inst="t18100919-97-person823" type="gender" value="female"/> </persName> . On the tenth of September, about nine in the morning, I was going past Mr. Richardson's, a
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<join result="offencePlace" targOrder="Y" targets="t18100919-97-off546 t18100919-97-crimeloc549"/>, I saw the prisoner put his hand into the window and take a ham; I informed Mr. Richardson of it, he sent a man after him, he took the prisoner and the ham.</p>
<p>JAMES BRIMSKILL. I am a servant to Mr. Richardson. From information of the last witness, I pursued the prisoner, he fell down and dropped the ham, I picked up the ham and took him. This is the ham, it is my master's,</p>
<p>Prisoner's defence. I leave myself to the mercy of the Court.</p>
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<p>Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.</p> </div1></div0>
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