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burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of
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last, and burglariously stealing therein four hundred yards of black sattinet, value 13 l. one hundred and forty yards of black callimanco, value 3 l. one hundred and twenty yards of bombazeen, value 12 l. and ninety yards of black dureen, value 12 l. and thirty yards of fine sattinet, value 3 l. his property
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last, one hundred and twenty yards of black bombazeen, value 12 l. and ninety yards of black dureen, value 12 l. and thirty yards of fine sattinet, value 3 l. part and parcel of the said goods, well knowing the same to have been stolen
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, my house was broke open some time last month; I went to bed between eleven and twelve, I left none of my family up but the man that lays over the shop, I saw all my doors and windows secured when I went to bed; I was called up about three, or rather before, by two watchmen, I went to the watch-house and there was some goods there; there were seventeen pieces taken out of twenty-two; there was a bruise on the outside door of the house, and the inner lock of the staple broke; the outside door was wrenched open, and the inner door forced open. I lost six pieces, two bombazeens, one sattinet, and three dureens; I saw them the evening before, they were kept in a warehouse on purpose.
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Mr. Garrow, Prisoner Phillip's Council. Is this warehouse any part of your dwelling house? - Yes, my servants lodge over it, my apprentices.
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How do they get to their lodging rooms? - Through the warehouse.
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- PEARCE sworn.
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I apprehended the prisoner Burdett on the 24th of June, about one in the morning, I saw three men lurking about Moorfields along the stones, about one hundred yards from the prosecutor's house; I went to them with the watchman, there was a large puddle of water separated us, and the prisoner Burdett was one of the three men; and he says to his companions, come this way, and the others answered no; he then waded through the water or mud, ancle deep, to come across to me, I said, who are you, but I received no answer, and the other two men ran off, and Burdett, in a saultering tongue and trembling every limb, uttered that he lived in Grub-street; I took him to the watch-house.
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Did you find any thing about him? - No; I then went in pursuit of a cart which I heard coming, I stopped it, the driver damned me, and began to hit me over the arms and legs, I called the watchman, and the cart drove off.
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Court. Did you find any of these things? - No, the watchman found them.
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, the watchman, confirmed the evidence of Pearce, as to taking Burdett, and stopping the cart, and about three o'clock found three bundles of stuff, and a dark lanthorn upon the stones in Moorfields, and saw another man pick up two crows.
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I am a watchman, I saw a cart stop facing Moor Place, and the prisoner Burdett talking to the driver.
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Court. There is not the least evidence against the prisoners.
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BOTH
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Court to Burdett. Your conduct has been very suspicious indeed, and you have had a very narrow escape because the evidence was defective, I hope you will take care and amend your conduct.
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Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.
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