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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 02 December 2023), January 1829, trial of                      FREDERICK                      SELLS                                                                                                    (t18290115-128).<hr/><h2>FREDERICK SELLS, Theft &gt; animal theft, 15th January 1829. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>393.                                                       FREDERICK                      SELLS                                                                                                                               was indicted for                                                          stealing, on the 16th of December                     , 2 live ducks, price 5s            ., the property of                                                       George                      Harp                                                                                                                              .</p>               <p>                                                SAMUEL                   GREEN                                                                                       . I am a watchman. Between three and four o'clock in the morning of the 16th of December, I was in George-street, Spitalfields; I saw the prisoner pass with a bag in his hand - I knew him, and said, "Fred. what have you got there?" he then walked on quicker, went up a court, and was trying to get in at his own door; I went up, and said, "Where is the bag?" he said,"I had no bag; I looked about, and saw this bag, with two ducks in it - as soon as he saw me take it up, he absconded, and I did not see him again till Friday, the 19th; he was eighty or a hundred yards from the prosecutor's when I saw him.</p>               <p>                                                GEORGE                   HARP                                                                                       . I live in Flower and Dean-street, Spitalfields                                                      . On the morning of the 16th of December, I lost these two ducks out of my yard, which is enclosed by a wall from seven to eight feet high; I know them to be mine.</p>               <p>Prisoner's Defence. I do not know any thing about them.                                     GUILTY            . Aged 41.</p>               <p>                                                                           Confined Three Months            .</p>            </div>
				
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