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burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="t17880227-11-victim160"> <interp inst="t17880227-11-victim160" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, between the hours of six and eight in the night, and stealing two printed cotton gowns, value 16 s. a linen sheet, value 2 s. a calico bed-gown, value 1 s. 6 d. a muslin handkerchief, value 2 s. a flannel petticoat, value 2 s. a napkin, value 2 s. a linen table-cloth, value 2 s. a line pron, value 1 s. 6 d. and a looking-glass, value 6 s.<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178802270024"></xptr>
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, in the said dwelling-house </rs>
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<p>I live in the house of <rs type="persName" id="t17880227-11-person164"> <interp inst="t17880227-11-person164" type="role" value=""></interp>
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; on the 12th of January I went out to my daily labour, at six in the morning, and returned about a quarter after eight at night, and understood from my wife that we had been robbed; I applied to the officers, and they informed me they had two young men in custody; this was on the Saturday; I went on Monday to Justice Wilmot's, and saw some of my things there.</p>
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, we lodge in the lower apartment of Mr. Houghton's house; on the 12th of January, between six and seven o'clock at night, I went up two pair of stairs to my landlady's room to light a candle; I might stay the value of half an hour; when I came down I found some of my things out of the drawer, which gave me a suspicion that I had been robbed, I looked in the drawers, and found that I had lost all that I had; my door and the street-door were shut when I went up stairs, when I came down I found the doors as I left them, the window was broke open, the holdfast was broke away, it was tied with a double string, that was cut, and the casement very much bent; one pane of glass was broke, and two or three cracked; it was all safe when I went up stairs.</p>
<p>Where did that window look into? - The street, there was the mark of a foot down the inside of the wall, below the window.</p>
<p>Was day-light gone when you went up stairs? - Day-light was not quite shut in, they were gone before I came down stairs; I missed all the things mentioned in the indictment.</p>
<p>(Repeating them)</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I work in Virginia-row, I was going for a penny candle about half after seven o'clock, I saw the two prisoners pass over from the corner of Batson's house, and I heard William Hill say to <rs type="persName" id="t17880227-11-person168"> <interp inst="t17880227-11-person168" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, in a low voice; see if there is any body in the chandler's shop; I was surprised, I went in for the candle, and when I came out they were gone.</p>
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looked me in the face.</p>
<p>Did you know them before? - No, I never saw them before in my life.</p>
<p>How came you to know their names so well? - Because they were mentioned at the Justice's on the Monday.</p>
<p>Was it dark? - It was half after seven o'clock; they had nothing with them that I saw.</p>
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<p>On the 12th of January, as the bell rang at eight o'clock, Shakeshaft, Harper, and I, met the two prisoners near Petticoat-lane; Hill had a bundle, I laid hold of him, and he dropped the bundle, I gave him to Harper, the other ran away; I pursued him, and catched him as he was laying this glass down by a wall; I brought him back, and in the presence of Hill, he said he gave them him to carry, and Hill never denied it.</p>
<p>Was this near Houghton's house? - It was about a quarter of an hour's walk from it.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I got this bundle (producing it) out of the kennel, after Armstrong delivered the prisoner Hill into my hand; I saw him throw the bundle away; I did not see the other till he was taken.</p>
<p>Did you hear the prisoners say any thing? - I think I heard the little one (Bono) say the other gave him the things to carry.</p>
<p>(The things were produced in Court, and deposed to by the Prosecutrix.)</p>
<p>PRISONER HILL's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>Is it probable, if I dropped the bundle, that Armstrong would not have taken it up?</p>
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PRISONER BONO's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I never had the glass, I know nothing of it; I was going along, I heard somebody say, stop thief, shoot him, and a man up and hit me with a stick, and said I dropped that glass; I never had it.</p>
<p>Hill called two witnesses, and Bono four, who gave them a very good character.</p>
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GUILTY, Of stealing the goods, but not guilty of burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house </rs>
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<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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