| Reference Number | t18281204-166 |
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| Verdict | Guilty |
| Sentence | Imprisonment |
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165. THOMAS JOHNSON was indicted for stealing, on the 28th of November , 7 sheets, value 10s. , the goods of Thomas Ewer .
THOMAS EWER . I am a broker , and live in Belton-street, Long-acre . The prisoner lodged there one night, and on the morning of the 28th of November, when he was gone, I missed seven sheets, which were safe when he went to bed - I did not know him before.
JAMES BEECHEY . I am an officer. I stopped the prisoner near Robin Hood-lane, Poplar, on the 28th of November, with these seven sheets, which he said he found in a field between the East and West India Dock-road; he at first told me they were rags.(Property produced and sworn to.)
GUILTY . Aged 26.
Confined Three Months .