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the Court a few minutes past nine 
o’clock, when Mr. Blackburn and 
Mr. Wainewright were placed at 
the bar. 
After the swearing of the jurors, 
Mr. Wainewright was removed 
from the bar, and the Court pro- 
ceeded to the trial of Mr. Black- 
burn. 
Mr. Richardson opened the in- 
dictment, and stated the facts 
which he intended to establish by 
the testimony of the different wit- 
nesses in support of the prosecu- 
tion. 
Mr. John Atkinson, attorney at 
law, Leeds, produced a deed, 
which he stated to have been re- 
ceived from Mr. John Scott, one 
of the stewards of a benefit soci- 
ety, on the 11th of February, and 
which had been in his possession 
ever since. 
Mr. J. Scott stated, that he 
was a steward to a Society, cal- 
led the Clothiers’? Benevolent So- 
ciety. There is a chest, in which 
are deposited the deeds and secu- 
rities belonging to the society ; 
the witness took the deed, pro- 
duced by Mr. Atkinson, out of 
this box on the first Monday in 
February, and delivered it to the 
landlady of the house where the 
box was kept, and received it back 
on.the Saturday following. 
Mrs. Mary Fluker, the landlady, 
stated, that she received a deed 
from the last witness on the day 
he had stated; that she delivered 
it to him again on the Saturday 
following, and that in this inter- 
val it was never out of her pos- 
session. 
Mr. J. Scott then proceeded to 
state, that he delivered the deed 
so received from Mrs. Fluker, to 
Mr. Atkinson, at his office, on Sa- 
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turday the 11th of February last, 
in the same state in which he re- 
ceived it. 
Mr. Thomas Taylor stated, that 
he knew Mr. Blackburn very well; 
employed him to makea mortgage 
for him about last November, for 
the society known by the name of 
the Clothiers’ Friend Society, and 
took his deeds for that purpose to 
Mr. Blackburn; the sum to be 
secured was 1807. Witness af- 
terwards saw the mortgage-deed, 
which is that now produced, and 
which was prepared for him by 
Mr. Blackburn. Witness does 
not recollect whether any person 
but Mr. Blackburn was in the of- 
fice when he called. 
Charles Smith was employed in 
the office of Mr. Blackburn, to 
engross deeds. On the deed in 
question being shewn to the wit- 
ness, he said it was engrossed 
by him in November last, and was 
either delivered by him to Mr. 
Blackburn, or left in his office.— 
Witness looked at the name of 
one of the attesting witnesses, 
signed “Jo. Blackburn,” which 
he said was the hand-writing of 
Mr. Blackburn. 
Mr. Musgrave stated, that he 
was one of the attesting witnesses 
to the deed in question, and that 
Mr. Blackburn was the other. 
Witness did not go to Wakefield 
to register the deed, nor did he 
take any oath on that occasion. 
The word “sworn,” he stated, 
was written opposite to Mr. Black- 
burn’s name. 
Mr. Abraham Smith said, that 
he is one of the stampers at the 
Stamp-office, in London, and has 
been in that situation 16 or 17 
years. When the stamping for 
the day is concluded, the dies are 
