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was indictment that <rs id="t17530718-45-off235" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-off235" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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he on the <rs id="t17530718-45-cd236" type="crimeDate">23d of April, 1751</rs>
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, between the hours of one and two in the night of the same day the dwelling-house of <rs type="persName" id="t17530718-45-victim405"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-victim405" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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60 china cups, val. 20 s. 4 china saucers, one Bow china tea pot, one earthen tea-pot, two pickle dishes made of earthen ware, five fish-plates made of earthen ware, one earthen fish strainer, one shew glass, and other things did steal, take, and carry away </rs>
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, oherwise Forrester. See his Trial No. 374, in alderman Cockayne's mayoralty.</p>
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. I live <rs type="placeName" id="t17530718-45-crimeloc237">joining to the Swan brewhouse gate, White-chape</rs>
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by trade, but <rs id="t17530718-45-viclabel239" type="occupation">my wife keeps an earthen ware and china shop</rs>
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, which she has kept about eight years. On the 23d of April , 1751, the watchman called me up between one and two o'clock, and when I came down the shutters were all broke to pieces, one pane of glass was broke, and one shutter lay in the middle of the channel, I shut the shop up myself, and am sure it was shut up fast. The bolt and keys were so the next morning. I missed the things mentioned in the indictment, (he produces a Bow china tea-pot ) and this tea-pot was one that I lost at that time. There was a woman came and gave information, whom I stopp'd and carried before Sir <rs type="persName" id="t17530718-45-person408"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-person408" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, I cannot swear that the prisoner did it.</p>
<p>Q. How large was the pane of glass that was broke?</p>
<p>Paul. I believe it would let me in.</p>
<p>Q. from the prisoner. Do you know any thing of me?</p>
<p>Paul. No, I know nothing of him, but I believe he is the man by circumstances.</p>
<p>Elizabeth Hall. I have known the prisoner at the bar these two years.</p>
<p>Q. Did you know Hatton and Hall?</p>
<p>Hall. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Did you know any thing of the china ?</p>
<p>Hall. Yes, Hatten, Hall, and Jones brought a bag, like a coal sack, with earthen ware and china in it, in April, 1751, they brought the goods to one Mrs. Titchbourne's in the Back Lane.</p>
<p>Q. What were the particular things ?</p>
<p>Hall. There was five earthen fish plates, two brown stone plates, and a great many tea cups and saucers, and a great many broke.</p>
<p>Q. When they brought these things to this place, how did they say they came by them?</p>
<p>Hall. George Hall said he broke open a house in White-chapel, the prisoner at the bar gave me six-pence to carry the china to one Mrs. Roach's in Gravel-Lane, Bishopsgate-street.</p>
<p>Q. Did the prisoner say where he had them?</p>
<p>Hall. No, he said nothing to me where he had them.</p>
<p>Q. Was the prisoner there when Hall said he broke open the house in White-chapel?</p>
<p>Hall. Yes, he was, they were all three together.</p>
<p>Q. How did they say they got into the house?</p>
<p>Hall. They said they broke the window shutter.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know any thing of that tea-pot.</p>
<p>Hall. Yes, this tea pot had never a lid when they brought it.</p>
<p>Q. How do you know this is the pot?</p>
<p>Hall. I know it by the roughness of the spout, one <rs type="persName" id="t17530718-45-person409"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-person409" type="role" value=""></interp>
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and I carried them, and had sixpence a-piece.</p>
<p>Q. from the prisoner to Hall. Did I ever give you any money?</p>
<p>Hall. He himself gave it me, it was a crooked six-pence, before he gave me things to carry.</p>
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. I knew Hatton and Hall, and the prisoner at the bar, I have known them four or five years; but the other two I knew but about two or three months by seeing them about the place where they liv'd.</p>
<p>Q. How long ago is that?</p>
<p>Merrit. I don't know, I think, as near as I can guess, last April was two years, I saw them both in company together, and the prisoner with them.</p>
<p>Q. Upon what occasion did you see them all three?</p>
<p>Merrit. They were in a publick house drinking when I came in, and asked me to sit down and drink: We had not been long there before <rs type="persName" id="t17530718-45-person411"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-person411" type="role" value=""></interp>
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came in, they asked him if he had been picking pockets; he said, d - n your blood, yes. Then I heard them make a bargain to go out together, and Elizabeth Hall asked me to lay with her, which I did; about two or three in the morning somebody knock'd at the door, there were <rs type="persName" id="t17530718-45-person412"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-person412" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, Hatton and Hall, Jones had got the bag with the china in it, and Hall had got a bag of pumps. In the morning, as soon as ever we were up, they asked me and Elizabeth Hall to carry them into Gravel Lane, Hall ask'd if I would go, I said I could carry nothing on my head, so I got a person to carry for me, and went with them. Jones went for Minous and Scampy, two Jews, with whom they bargained to sell these things, I heard George Hall say, he asked twenty-seven shillings, and Scampy and Minous bid them but twenty-three, so they could not agree: Then they carried the things into Rag-Fair, where they heard that this<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="175307180037"></xptr>
Forrester was going to make himself an evidence, and directly George Hall sent me to <rs type="persName" id="t17530718-45-person413"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-person413" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Brabrook <interp inst="t17530718-45-person413" type="surname" value="Brabrook"></interp>
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to come and take them up.</p>
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. I knew Hatton, Hall, and the prisoner at the bar; I have known the prisoner about 14 years, and Hatton and Hall about two years and a half: the china was brought to one Mrs. Roach's house to be sold to me and the Jews, they ask'd thirty-six shillings, and there was 22 bid, they parted for a crown, but don't know what became of them afterwards, this was about two years ago last April.</p>
<p>Q. Did you hear Jones, Hall and Hatton say from whence they had these goods.</p>
<p>Miers. No, I never asked them where they had them.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence.</p>
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was only taken by these thief-takers to come and swear my life away for the reward, nothing else, <rs id="t17530718-45-verdict240" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17530718-45-verdict240" type="verdictCategory" value="notGuilty"></interp>
Acq. but detained to be tried on another indictment </rs>
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