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was indicted for
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, about the hour of eight in the night, and stealing six mens hats, value 20 s. the property of the said Lawrence, in his dwelling house
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. On the 15th of December I lost six hats out of my shop; they were taken from the window; I saw them in the evening about five or six o'clock; between seven and eight I heard a sudden noise at the window; I went out but saw no person, and I immediately missed the hats; I found three of them again; one was left with Mr. Weal; one at Mrs. Doharty's, and one at a pawnbroker's.
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. I am a hat-maker. On the 15th of December there were two hats brought to my house; I was not in the way; I delivered them to the prisoner again the next day, and he brought another that I stopped. (The hats produced and deposed to by the prosecutor.)
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Mrs. Doharty. Two men came to my house to lodge; they lodged two nights with me; the third night they gave me three hats to put by for them. I delivered the hats to Sir
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's men; I put my mark on them; I believe they are the same. I believe it was the other man that was with the prisoner that gave me the hats.
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Prisoner's Defence.
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in Holborn, and he gave me the hats, and desired me to get linings put in them; I carried two, and the next day I carried the third, and Mr. Weal stopped me and the hat; they took Wright and let him go again.
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Weal. I took him , but as there was no charge against him he was discharged; the prisoner did not charge him then, but said the hats belonged to one
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, who was formerly a master hatter, but is now confined for debt.
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For the Prisoner.
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. I have known the prisoner some years; he bears a good character: he was bred a farmer; he came to London about two years ago to get into any employment he could.
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Guilty of stealing the hats, but not of the burglary
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