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. The Evidence against him was Mr. Nightingall and his Servant Maid the first deposing that the Peuter (to his knowledge) was in his Kitchen over Night, and the next Morning it was Missing; And the Latter gave Evidence that by her Consent the Prisoner had hid himself in her Masters Cellar, under a pretence of securing him from the Fury of his own Master, and that when she came to look for him the next Morning, she found him and the Peuter gone; the Cellar Door to the Street being likewise left open; but it appearing that the Maid had absented her self and no other proof but
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