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stealing one silver quart tankard, value 6 l. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17530502-9-victim75"> <interp inst="t17530502-9-victim75" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, in the dwelling house of the said Francis </rs>
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<p>Francis Loftus. I <rs id="t17530502-9-viclabel34" type="occupation">keep the <rs type="placeName" id="t17530502-9-crimeloc35">Hercules behind the Exchange</rs>
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, I have sixteen silver tankards in all, we always carry them up stairs when we go to bed; on the 17th of March in the morning I had them all, and at night there was one missing.</p>
<p>Q. Have you seen it since?</p>
<p>Loftus. I have. (Produced in court broke into four pieces, and another to compare with it, the Hercules ingrav'd on it, with Francis on one side, and Loftus on the other.) I advertised it on the Monday following, upon which I had it again in this condition.</p>
<p>Elliad Mulling. I am a drawer with Mr. Loftus, the first time I saw the prisoner, was on the 14th of March in the morning, he came between eight and nine, and staid till about half an hour after ten; he came again on the 17th, about half an hour after three, and had a tankard of beer in the kitchen with the cook; one of our boys drew the beer in a silver tankard with a lid; (that which we lost had got a lid.)</p>
<p>Q. Look at these pieces, is this your master's tankard?</p>
<p>Mulling. Here is the same name and engraving on it as is on all my master's tankards, and I believe it is my master's property; the prisoner was at that time talking to the cook, saying he had been a mountibank, and had travelled round England, and got a deal of money that way.</p>
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. I live with Mr. Johnson a pawnbroker, the corner of Russel-court, Bridge's-Street; on the 17th of March the prisoner brought the handle and part of the body of the tankard to me to pawn, he asked fourteen shillings upon it, I weigh'd it, and found it weigh'd eight ounces, it was much disfigured, I got a constable, and carried him before justice Fielding, he not being at home, we put him into the watch-house, and advertiz'd the part of a tankard.</p>
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. I am constable, I carried the prisoner to the round-house, (justice Fielding not being at home) where he lay till the Monday.</p>
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. I am watchouse keeper of Covent Garden parish, I set there on nights, on the 17th of March, Mr. Allison and the constable brought the prisoner to the watchouse about ten at night, I lock'd him up in a room; a little time after the beadle of the night and I went up stairs and searched him, and found the other pieces of the tankard in his pockets, that is the lid, the bottom,<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="175305020006"></xptr>
and part of the body; he has acknowledged since, it was Mr. Loftus's property.</p>
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. I went up in the watchouse with Mr. Currey, to search the prisoner, and found the three pieces he has mention'd, upon the prisoner.</p>
<p>Prisoner's defence.</p>
<p>I told them I had the rest about me, before they searched me, and told them my wife and mother would find out the man that gave it me to pawn.</p>
<p>Brite. He said it was a family tankard, and when his wife and mother came, they would own it. I took care to have the pieces below, against they came. They said they knew nothing of it.</p>
<p>To his Character.</p>
<p>Epbhraim Elicock. The prisoner liv'd with me a year, fifteen years ago; I know nothing of him since: he behaved himself well, then.</p>
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Ann Barret <interp inst="t17530502-9-person80" type="surname" value="Barret"></interp>
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. I have known him eight or nine years he served his time to a <rs id="t17530502-9-deflabel36" type="occupation">barber and periwig-maker</rs>
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; I never knew him wrong man, woman, or child, of the tythe of a pin.</p>
<p>Eleaner Sherriden. I have known him three years, but have not seen him for a year past. He behaved well and work'd for his bread when I knew him.</p>
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Guilty of stealing, but not in the dwelling-house </rs>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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