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; about the hour of one in the night, on the
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last, and burglariously stealing therein, one linen sheet, value 10 s. eight damask table cloths, value 40 s. one sheet, value 10 s. eight shirts, value 3 l. one counterpane, value 10 s. his property
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I am laundry maid to Mr. Stratton, he lives at
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; I went last to bed, I locked the laundry the night the robbery was committed, which was the 16th of June, the doors and windows were secure; in the morning about six I was alarmed, the laundry had been broke open and robbed; when I got up I observed the window opened, and an iron bar taken out.
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Did you look at that window before you went to bed? - Yes, it was fast then.
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Did your master lose any thing? - Yes.
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What did he lose? - There were a vast many things lost, there were three counterpanes, eight table cloths, shirts, shifts, and aprons, and sheets, I saw these things the night before; some part of them are here.
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Mr. Peatt, Prisoner's Council. Was you all over the house before you went to bed? - No. Sir, only all over the laundry.
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Jury. Is the laundry a detached building from the house? - Joining to the house.
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Court. How does it join? - It joins to one corner.
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Mr. Peatt. Is the laundry and the house distinct? - They are just joining.
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Court. Do they join brick to brick? - - Yes.
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How long before that evening had you been in the garret? - Not for three or four days before.
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I am a gardener, I apprehended the prisoners
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in the middle of the day, about eleven, on the 17th of June, they had three bundles, each had one; I sat in a cart, waiting to give a man a cask, and I saw the prisoners come out at the end of the lane, and I suspected them, and I went to catch Allen, and he threw a bundle at me plump in my face, and the other two ran away; I called out stop thief! and I saw them all seized, with the bundles on them; the bundles have been in Lovell's possession ever since, I gave them to him.
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Mr. Peatt. Were they out of sight any part of your pursuit? - Neither Sampson nor Allen.
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Were there any other persons about in the fields? - Five or six people run.
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What do you know of Collins? - I never saw him till he was taken; Lee took him.
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How soon after did you see Collins in custody? - About three minutes.
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I took possession of the things, I took them home and dried them, the next day I brought them to the Office.
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Mr. Peatt. How came they in your possession? - I took one up which Collins dropped, then they came up with the other two.
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The things deposed to by
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, the table cloth and sheet marked I. A. S.
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Court. What are the value of these things? - I do not know; the table cloth and sheet are marked, and this counterpane I have washed several times.
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Court. That is nothing at all as to the counterpane.
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Mr. Peatt. What does your master do with his old linen? - I do not know.
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Court. What is the value of the sheet? - I am not a judge.
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PRISONERS DEFENCE.
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We leave it to our Council; we picked the things up under a hedge.
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ALL THREE
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transported for seven years
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.
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