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; a Silver Watch, val. 6 l. a Silver Chain, val. 6 s. the Goods of
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, in the Dwelling-house of
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. The Prisoner was my
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. On the 6th of December I went to my Mantua-maker in the Evening, and left the Prisoner at home to take Care of the House, and clean out my Room: When I came back, I found the Street-door open; so I call'd Nanny! Nanny! bring a Candle! but no body answering, I li't a Candle, and ran up Stairs, and found my Chest of Drawers broke open, and all the Things which are mentioned in the Indictment were taken out of the Drawers, and out of another Room. I saw no more of the Prisoner till the 28th of December; then a Person that knew me, stopp'd her in Drury-Lane, and sent for me; we carried her before Mr. De Veil, and there she told me the Watch was stole away from her, by her Uncle, when she was in Liquor, and some of the Money she had spent at Rochester, the rest she had bought fine Cloaths with, which her Maid had run away with, and pawn'd she knew not where; she own'd every Thing but the Sheets.
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who walk'd out with Wright to the Mantua-maker's, confirm'd great Part of the above Evidence.
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heard where the Prisoner was, and was the Occasion of her being taken. She likewise spoke to the Prisoner's Confession.
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Prisoner. She keeps a Bawdy-house, and has said, she would swear my Life away.
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. I am a Butcher in Newgate-market. I know nothing of the Prisoner; but I know the Prosecutor to be a Street-walker, she plies in Fleet street, Temple-Bar and Ludgate-Hill, and goes by the Name of Moll Jenkins. I have been at her House on Ludgate-Hill myself, within these seven Years. These Creatures get a poor raw Girl into their Houses, and then if they won't come to their Terms, they think it no more Harm to swear their Lives away, than I do to kill a Sheep. She lives up a little Court on the left Hand, in a Turning between the Cock Alehouse and the Crown Tavern on
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. I shall see her (ten to one else) as I go home Tonight.
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. The Prosecutor keeps a notorious Bawdy-house, and is a Woman of a notorious Character.
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Wright. I have now and then an Acquaintance comes to see me, - but as for walking the Street, there's nothing in it.
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Jury. Did the Prisoner live with you as a Servant - for Wages?
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Wright. She was at that Time a hired Servant, but before that she was a Sort of a Lodger in my House; I was to give her Cloaths, - not much Money, about 50 s. a Year.
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. That Woman (Wright) has offer'd to pick me up ten or fifteen Times, as I have pass'd from Fleet ditch to Salisbury Court; she has offer'd to go with me to a Tavern a great many Times. I think 'tis just she should have the Character she deserves. I never drank with the Creature in my Life.
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