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264.
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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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last, two linen shirts, value 4 s.
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the goods of
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Edward Humphrys
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ISABELLA HUMPHRYS sworn.
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I am wife to
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, I live in great
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St. Ann's-street, Westminster
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, I missed two shirts some time in February from my one pair of stairs room; I had no person in the house but my own family, the shirts were found at Mr. Wright's, the pawnbroker's, the prisoner lodged in my two pair of stairs front room.
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Court. Did any body lodge with her? - Nobody.
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How long had she lodged with you? - Four or five months.
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Where was she when you missed your linen? - She was just gone out, she never came home till I took her, which was on the third day after, at St. Martin's workhouse; Mr. Wright's man produced two shirts, which he took in pledge of the prisoner the 28th of February.
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(The things deposed to.)
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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Sir, I was in great distress, I was a
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with two small children, I buried my husband out of her house.
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Court. But your being in distress was no reason why you should rob that poor woman.
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Prisoner. I meant to return them again, she knows I have worked at several places; I have no friend in the world.
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Jury. I know the woman's face, I know she is a poor woman.
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Court. The fact is clear, and we must not relax it, we must not allow persons upon any pretence whatever to pawn other persons goods without their consent.
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She was humbly recommended to mercy by the Jury.
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Court to the Prisoner. You will have favour shewn to you this time; but if you are not able to maintain yourself by honest industry, apply to your parish.
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Upon the recommendation of the Jury to be
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Tried by the second Middlesex, Jury before
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