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<p>851.
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<p>MR. LAW conducted the prosecution.</p>
<p>MR.
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<p>- (read).</p>
<p>BANKS
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<interp inst="t18210606-142-person1514" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I am Governor of Tothill-fields Bridewell, the prisoner was committed on the 26th of April, 1819, till the Sessions, and then remanded for six months.</p>
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<interp inst="t18210606-142-person1515" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I come from the clerk of the Peace's office, Middlesex, I produce the record of the conviction of the prisoner as an incorrigible rogue, on the 28th of February, 1820; he was committed to the House of Correction till the Sessions. - (Read) - I also produce the order of the Quarter Sessions confirming the conviction, and ordering him to be imprisoned twelve months, and twice whipped.</p>
<p>MR.
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<interp inst="t18210606-142-person1516" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I know the commitment to be Mr. Birnie's hand-writing - he is a Magistrate of Middlesex.</p>
<p>MR.
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<interp inst="t18210606-142-person1517" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I am Governor of the House of Correction; the prisoner was committed to my custody on the 15th day of April, and discharged at the expiration of twelve months, and twice whipped.</p>
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<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="182106060071"/>principle, and has an extra purchase, I found a small screw driver in the basket, two sacks, and some green baize; he said, if they were mine, I might have them - that he had found them; I asked where, he said, in Piccadilly, and was going to Newgate-market; I said, that was not the right way.</p>
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<p>Prisoner's Defence. I live at Chelsea; I was going to market, and between St. James's-church and the Haymarket, I found the crow and things, and put them in my basket; I was taken in Holborn; it is a conspiracy against me.</p>
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<p>Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Common Sergeant.</p> </div1></div0>
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<p>851.
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<p>MR. LAW conducted the prosecution.</p>
<p>MR.
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<p>- (read).</p>
<p>BANKS
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<interp inst="t18210606-142-person1514" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I am Governor of Tothill-fields Bridewell, the prisoner was committed on the 26th of April, 1819, till the Sessions, and then remanded for six months.</p>
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<p>MR.
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<interp inst="t18210606-142-person1516" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I know the commitment to be Mr. Birnie's hand-writing - he is a Magistrate of Middlesex.</p>
<p>MR.
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<p>Prisoner's Defence. I live at Chelsea; I was going to market, and between St. James's-church and the Haymarket, I found the crow and things, and put them in my basket; I was taken in Holborn; it is a conspiracy against me.</p>
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<p>Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Common Sergeant.</p> </div1></div0>
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