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September 13th
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I am one of the
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. On the 23d of September Mr. Eglington, the master of the workhouse, applied to me, and informed me the prisoner, who was a pauper in the workhouse, had taken some sheets. I went with him to Mr. Davidson's, a pawnbroker, in Fleet-street, and found the four sheets pledged; but he did not deliver up the sheets till some time afterwards, till I got a warrant from the Lord Mayor.
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Whose property are these sheets? - The property of the churchwardens and overseers of the parish (naming them). They belonged to the workhouse, and had the parish mark upon them, which is an anchor.
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I am a pawnbroker in Fleet-street. I had three sheets; they were delivered up at the Mansion-house, to Mr. Eglington, the master of the workhouse.
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I had these sheets (producing them) of Mr. Davidson, the pawnbroker; I have had them ever since; they are the property of the Parish of St. Clement.
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Davidson. The prisoner had a different appearance then, but I am certain she is the same person. She brought me a sheet and said her name was
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, and I lent her one shilling and sixpence; that was on the 29th of
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August. She
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said she was an house-keeper in Carey-street. The mark on the sheet was obliterated with whiting, that I really did not see it. The other two sheets were received on the 31st of August, and the 13st of September. They were taken in by my young man; I was in the shop when they were taken in. They were brought by the prisoner.
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Did you observe no mark on the sheets? - I did not. The mark was in black, and was obliterated with whiting, on that I took in.
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When was the fourth taken in? - That was on the 1st of August; I was not present then.
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Were the marks of them all so defaced that you could not discern them? - I believe all the marks were defaced; they have been one with whiting.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I leave myself to the mercy of the court.
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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