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Margaret Walker , alias <rs id="t17300408-60-alias-13" type="alias"> <join result="nameAlias" targOrder="Y" targets="t17300408-60-defend340 t17300408-60-alias-13"></join>
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privately stealing twenty-one Yards of Linen Cloth, value 20 s. in the Shop of <rs type="persName" id="t17300408-60-victim342"> <interp inst="t17300408-60-victim342" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Henry Warcopp <interp inst="t17300408-60-victim342" type="surname" value="Warcopp"></interp>
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depos'd, That the Prisoner came to his Master's Shop, under pretence of buying Irish Linen, that she shew'd her several Pieces, all which she dislik'd; that he went cross the Shop to reach another Piece, but suspecting her, kept his Eye as much as he could towards her, and thought he perceiv'd her to put something under her Ridinghood; that upon his shewing her the Piece of Cloth that he fetch'd, she, upon casting her Eye on it, pretended not to like it, and went hastily out of the Shop; that his Master being at the Shop-Door, talking with a Gentleman, he told him, he suspected the Prisoner had stolen something; he bid him follow her, which he did, and brought her back, and she being tax'd with it, did take the Piece of Cloth from under her Ridinghood; the Prisoner's taking the Cloth from under her Ridinghood, being also confirm'd by Mr. Goodchild , and the Prisoner having nothing to say in her Defence, but that she had been drinking, and was in Liquor, and knew not what she did; the Jury found her <rs id="t17300408-60-verdict285" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17300408-60-verdict285" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
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