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, about the hour of ten in the night of the
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26th of January
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, and burglariously stealing therein twenty-eight seals set in gold, value 31 l. a gold ring, value 12 s. a telescope, value 2 s. two dozen of black lead pencils, value 8 s. a botanical thermometer, value 12 s.
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his property.
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(The Case opened by Mr. Silvester.)
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I occupy a shop in
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; I had another place where my family dwelt, and where I had my meals, but I slept in this shop: on the 21st of January, about four o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner Harding came in, and asked me the price of some seals, and asked, whether they were gold; I said, yes: he asked the prices, and said they were too high for him, he believed; but he would call again. On the 26th, about nine o'clock in the evening, the prisoner Pocock came in, and asked for a sheet of cartridge paper, which I sold him; I packed up my gold seals afterwards; I always take them home whether I sleep at home or in the shop; I put them on the compter; and when I had got home I found I had forgot to put them in my pocket; I went back; I found my door opened, and two men rushed out; they were pursued, and Reynolds was taken with this thermometer on him, broke as it is now; when I lost it, it was whole, and 21 gold seals were taken out of his pocket; I can swear to the property; I am sure the door was locked and fast when I left it.
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Court. You keep an open shop? - Yes.
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There were several people came in to ask the price of goods in that week? - Yes, but I do not remember any person, but the prisoner Harding, asking the price of gold seals.
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I am an apprentice to Mr. Benfield; I remember the prisoner Pocock coming in about nine o'clock in the evening, and buying a sheet of cartridge paper; I am sure he is the person.
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On the 26th of January last I was coming along Saville Row, I heard the cry of stop thief! saw a man running, and I went up and collared him, and held him 'till the prosecutor came up; I saw the barometer taken from Reynolds the evidence.
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I know the prisoner Pocock; he came to our house on a Monday between ten and eleven o'clock at night; it was in the month of January; he asked where Reynolds was: I said I did not know; he said, he believed he was taken up, and sent to the watch-house.
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Court. Have you any other witness to any fact but the accomplice? - No.
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Court. The Justice has certainly done wrong in admitting the wrong person evidence, by which means the whole gang is protected.
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BOTH
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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