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They paid me full value for the horses
and could not have known they were
stolen, no person had anything to
do with the stealing and selling
of the horses but me and George King
William Cooke who was convicted
for Whittys horses was innocent
he was not in my company
at Petersons But it is not the
place of the Police to convict guilty
men as it is by them they get their
living had the right parties been
convicted it would have been a
bad job for the Police as Berry would
have sacked a great many of them
only I came to their aid and kept
them in their bilits and good employ
ment and got them double pay and
yet the ungrateful articles my mother
and an infant my brotherinlaw and another
