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<p>780. The said <rs type="persName" id="t17840915-4-defend134"> <interp inst="t17840915-4-defend134" type="role" value="proceedingsdefend"></interp>
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was again indicted, for <rs id="t17840915-4-off15" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17840915-4-off15" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17840915-4-cd16" type="crimeDate">29th day of June</rs>
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last, one half-crown, value 2 s. 6 d. and sixpence in money numbered </rs>
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John Hillier <interp inst="t17840915-4-victim136" type="surname" value="Hillier"></interp>
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<p>The witnesses examined apart at the request of the prisoners.</p>
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MARTHA HILLIER <interp inst="t17840915-4-person137" type="surname" value="HILLIER"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
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John Hillier <interp inst="t17840915-4-person138" type="surname" value="Hillier"></interp>
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, I live at <rs type="placeName" id="t17840915-4-crimeloc17">Highgate</rs>
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, I <rs id="t17840915-4-viclabel18" type="occupation">keep a Poulterer's shop</rs>
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, the prisoner is the same gentleman that came into my shop on the 29th of June, a little after three in the afternoon, there was another gentleman came in with him.</p>
<p>You took them to be gentlemen? - Yes, he asked for some rabbets, he wanted a rabbet or a couple to be chopped up for frying; after agreeing for the price, this gentleman asked me to change a guinea, and he put down a guinea, I put down thirteen shillings, which he took up, the other gentleman said, O! damn it, do not change, I have money plenty, he laid down the money again.</p>
<p>Did he take up all? - Yes, I had bet ten shillings when he went away, in the room of thirteen.</p>
<p>I think you say, the prisoner took up the money as you laid it down? - Yes, he did take it up, he then laid down ten shillings of it, and they both went out of the shop, and bought nothing.</p>
<p>How long was it before you observed there were three shillings short? - Not three minutes.</p>
<p>Are you sure you had thirteen shillings? - Yes, I am sure.</p>
<p>Did you count them out one by one? - Yes, I am sure, I took out thirteen shillings, and had but ten again, and nobody was in the house but myself, and one child of ten years old, they had a chaise waiting for them opposite to my house, I saw them get into the chaise and go off immediately; there was another waiting at the door for them with a whip in his hand, I am sure the gentleman is the same, because he asked me how I did at the Justices, and he said he knew I should use him well.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Did I touch your money? - You took it in your hand, and threw it down again, I stooped to pick up one of the shillings, and you immediately pulled something out of your pocket like a gold watch, and went out in a trice.</p>
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WILLIAM LAWRELL <interp inst="t17840915-4-person139" type="surname" value="LAWRELL"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I took the prisoner, I know nothing of the robbery, I was at Litchfield-street, the next morning I saw Mrs. Hillier there, she knew him directly.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>Gentlemen of the Jury, I went into the shop for two rabbets, the people of the public house could not dress them, and we agreed to have a bit of cold victuals, my witnesses are some at Brentford, and some at Hounslow.</p>
<p>Court. You have heard this evidence, Gentlemen, the question is, whether you believe what this woman swears, she does positively swear that she produced thirteen<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178409150026"></xptr>
shillings, and the prisoner took up thirteen shillings, and laid down only ten shillings.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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whipped </rs>
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imprisoned six months in the House of Correction </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GOULD.</p>
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