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. On the 19th of January, I had a piece of glass taken out of my window, and a watch stolen thereout.
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Was the glass cut out? - There was a jar in it; I had put a piece of putty to it; the putty was taken off and a piece of glass taken out.
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Did you see it done yourself? - No, I did not see it done. I missed the watch about six o'clock. There were three boys; I was sitting at tea with my wife; I heard the boys say d - n your eyes, now is the time, they are all in the kitchen; that is a room I have partitioned off the shop. I said to my wife, I will take the show-glasses in, there will be some of the glass broke and something stolen. I went immediately and took the show-glasses in which were on the other side; I went after I had taken the show-glasses in to the other side, where the watches were, to see if they were safe.
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Is it a corner shop? - Yes. I hung a watch upon the pin the other was stolen off, not knowing a watch had been stolen, and felt the wind come through the window.
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Then you missed the watch? - Yes.
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Was it in the show-glass or in the window? - It was in the window in the inside of the shop, beside my work-board, within six or seven inches of the show-glasses. It is a kind of a bow window, I found the watch was gone, and immediately remembered whose watch it was.
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When had you put it there? - At dusk.
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How long was that before the time you missed it? - About forty minutes or more.
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Was it quite dark when you missed it? - Yes. I heard no more of it till the 16th of February, when I had an information that it was pawned that evening. I went up to the pawnbroker's; they owned it had been pawned. One of the evidences had bought it out of pawn. The next day I found it in the possession of
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When did you find it at Thompson's? - The Thursday following, last Thursday.
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Who gave you the information which led you to enquire at Thompson's? - Two women; I do not know their names; they are not here. I had taken a person up before who had received it from the boy, in consequence of the information of these women.
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Who had you taken up? -
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, the same evening I had the information, that was the 16th of February; she immediately confessed to us, and impeached this boy as the person that brought it to her.
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What did she confess? - That she had pawned it at Mr. Mashiter's, and had sold it to
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the next day. She had a different duplicate for it, the first duplicate was in her own name. She gave us information that evening, and we took the boy up the chimney, at the Ship and Sheers.
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Do you know what age the boy is? - His grandmother said fourteen next October. we went to
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, whom I personally knew, brought me the watch, and asked me half a guinea on it; I asked her if it was was her property; she said no, it belonged to her brother, that he was just come from sea, and had a great deal of money owing him, but could get none. I lent her half a guinea upon it, and gave her the duplicate. She lives about one hundred yards from my house. The next day she brought
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and delivered me the duplicate I gave her, and desired he might have it for the same money. Thompson laid her down some money; I believe it was six shillings, and in about five hours after he came again and paid the half guinea which
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The woman was offering a watch to sell? - The duplicate of a watch. I went up to her and asked her what she had got to sell; she told me she had got a watch in pawn for half a guinea, and she wanted to sell it out; she wanted a little money to go to Billingsgate to buy her some fish. I went with her to the pawnbroker's, and looked at it. I gave her six shillings and left it in pawn for the half guinea.
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To Marshall. How much do you look upon this watch to be worth? - About seven or eight and twenty shillings.
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To Thompson. Did you know Griffin before? - I never saw her to my knowledge in my life before.
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Did you ask her how she came by it? - Yes; she said it was her brother's, that he gave her leave to sell it. I little thought it was a stolen watch while it was in pawn.
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Did not you make any enquiry of the pawnbroker if he knew the woman or how she came by it? - No, I made no further enquiries about it. The watch-maker and Farrel came to me and asked me if I had such a watch; I said I had; and went with them to Justice Sherwood's, and delivered up the watch.
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From Griffin. Did you pay me for the watch?
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JOHN FARREL
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sworn.
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I am headborough of St. Paul's, Shadwell. On the 16th of February Mr. Marshall sent a man for an officer; I went and took Griffin out of bed, and she told me to take Davison, and said he was the lad who gave her the watch; I went to his mother's lodging; she would not let me into the room for some time; at last she let me in, but I could find nobody in the room but her, at last I looked up the chimney, and found Davison half way up the chimney.
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You took him? - Yes.
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Do you know the boy or his mother? - I know his mother, she used to deal in fish. The next day I went down to Thompson to Mr. Greaves's yard, and asked him about the watch; he delivered the watch to me, and I brought him in custody to Mr. Sherwood's.
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(The watch was produced in court and deposed to by the prosecutor.)
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GRIFFIN's DEFENCE.
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One night, after I had sold my sprats, I went into a house, and this boy and one Gardiner came in and said he had found a watch in some mud; I did not know it was stolen, or I would not have pawned it in my neighbourhood, in my own name.
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DAVISON's DEFENCE.
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I do not know what to say.
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- DAVISON sworn.
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I am the prisoner Davison's mother. He was twelve years old last October; he has behaved very well. He goes a
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for his living. My husband is a journeyman shipwright. I sell fish.
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BOTH
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NOT GUILTY
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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