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Defendant having declined to throw out any more shoes, they purposed next to search his houses, but that he said they should not do, unless they first got authority from the Yankees.- No search was ever made and no traces of Corn were seen about the place.
   The next evidence is that one of the two Brothers made mention of an inquiring the same day, at a Mill some five miles off, found about two and a half bushels of corn, which the Miller said that morning had been brought there from Defendants house by the two Boys herein before made mention of, to be ground into meal. This Corn young Brown, on comparing it with the other, pretended to identify as being the same stolen from his mother, from its being of a peculiar kind, called "Mexican"- I think - of which it was said no other existed in that whole neighborhood; although it was afterwards acknowledged that it was itself obtained from a lady living in that vicinity. - On this evidence the two first named partners were acquitted.
The only additional evidence introduced in this last trial was that of the Miller [[strikethrough]] himself [[/strikethrough]] who testified himself, to the corn found at his mill having been brought there from Defendants house, as before stated, to be ground; and it being afterwards taken away, as previously described: and he also pretended to identify it as being of the same kind at that he usually got of Mrs Brown only to grind; although, he admitted that Defendant had once a long time before, brought a similar kind of corn to be ground, and he said 'that he was in the habit of bringing' various kinds of corn to his mill. On this additional testimony, the Attorney for the Commonwealth          

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