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Mr. GEORGE HAWKES (concerned in extensive Iron Manufacture, in the Counties of Durham and Northumberland), examined.

“The first Lock that I ever had in my hands of Mr. ’s, was yesterday seven-night—it was a Till Lock: on looking at the key I thought it very easily copied by a piece of wood of any substance, that a pen-knife would cut. I considered, if I was right in my idea, that the principle of the Lock must be a dangerous one, it being very usual with the Masters of retail shops to leave their key, at some period or other, with the servant.”


 * Cross-examined.

“When you made that key of wood, had he not the real key in his possession from which he copied it?”