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<hi rend="italic">s</hi>., the goods of
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<interp inst="t18390304-name-156" type="given" value="BENJAMIN"/>BENJAMIN KIDMAN</persName> </hi>. I live in Upper Thames-street. On the evening of the 21st of February, about seven o'clock, I noticed a young man with a frock-coat on, push open the door of Mr. Gwryther's house, which is op
<lb/>posite to my house—I then saw the prisoner go and push the door gently open, and off a cheese which was there he took this box—be was going up Bush-lane with it—I opened my private door and took him, with this box of blacking.</p>
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<interp inst="t18390304-name-157" type="given" value="ELIZABETH"/>ELIZABETH GWYTHER</persName> </hi>. I am the wife of John Gwyther. This box is his, it contains seventy-four packages of blacking, and If worth 5
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<hi rend="italic">Prisoner.</hi> I was out with a cart, and got a little too much to drink.</p>
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