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 days before prisoner was apprehended. Before that time worked in the barn. Mrs. Booth, E. Chidlow, 3 Yates's (father and 2 sons) Scott, and Barrows, slept in the house. Recollects Dorothy Ingley coming to the house on the 16th—and that Elizabeth Chidlow went and rapped at the parlour door, in consequence of Dorothy Ingley speaking to her.—Booth came out, and said, "Good woman, what bother have you brought here!" Chidlow said the Tuners were coming Booth said it was a d—d lie—they durst not come there. Walked back into the parlour, and called witness after him—gave him a small trunk (which was produced)—told him the things that were in it were done, and he must go and plant it on the far side the ground—the trunk was locked—he dug a hole in a field and buried it, he had been directed by the prisoner to hide two copper-plates on the Tuesday before he was apprehended; he wrapt them in a cloth, and buried them in a ditch; same day he was employed again to plant a single plate, which he did in the same manner. Mrs. Booth also gave him plates when prisoner was not present, which he hid in the thatch of a wheat rick. Booth was then in bed; he had tumbled down a trap door that morning, and hurt himself.—Witness was taken up on the Friday after the prisoner. He immediately gave information, and discovered where the articles were concealed.

Joseph Chirm, head-borough of Birmingham, proved the finding of the trunk and plates. Swore