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JOHN WATSON <interp inst="t17850112-17-defend273" type="surname" value="WATSON"></interp>
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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17850112-17-cd96" type="crimeDate">30th of December</rs>
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Charles Logie <interp inst="t17850112-17-victim275" type="surname" value="Logie"></interp>
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; and one shirt, value 4 s. and one cotton handkerchief, value 1 s. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17850112-17-victim277"> <interp inst="t17850112-17-victim277" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
William Skelton <interp inst="t17850112-17-victim277" type="surname" value="Skelton"></interp>
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MARY SKELTON <interp inst="t17850112-17-person278" type="surname" value="SKELTON"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have not seen the prisoner a great many years, and he came to see me on the Thursday before New Year's Day; I live at <rs type="placeName" id="t17850112-17-crimeloc98">No. 14, Fludyer-street</rs>
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Charles Logie <interp inst="t17850112-17-person279" type="surname" value="Logie"></interp>
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, it was about one, or a little after, I asked him into the kitchen, he was a little while in the kitchen, and when he went away, I missed the spoon, it was a table spoon, with my master's crest.</p>
<p>Do you know what the crest is? - I believe it is a hand and a branch in it; I missed also a shirt and a handkerchief, the property of my husband; I knew the prisoner, he did live with Sir <rs type="persName" id="t17850112-17-person280"> <interp inst="t17850112-17-person280" type="role" value=""></interp>
Charles Gray <interp inst="t17850112-17-person280" type="surname" value="Gray"></interp>
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; I had all the things in the kitchen that day.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a pawn-broker, I live in the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster; between two and three, on the 30th of December, the prisoner first offered me a table spoon, and asked me seven shillings for it; I asked him whose it was; he said it was his own; I asked him if it was his crest, and he said, no, but it was his own spoon, and the shirt and handkerchief, which he wanted ten shillings upon, I lent him half a guinea, having no silver.</p>
<p>(The things produced and deposed to.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I never took any of them there.</p>
<p>The prisoner called one witness who gave him a very good character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Transported for seven years </rs>
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<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before the Lord Chief Baron.</p>
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