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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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10 s. the property of
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; and one shirt, value 4 s. and one cotton handkerchief, value 1 s. the property of
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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
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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.
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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
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; I had all the things in the kitchen that day.
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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.
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(The things produced and deposed to.
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Prisoner. I never took any of them there.
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The prisoner called one witness who gave him a very good character.
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Transported for seven years
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Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before the Lord Chief Baron.
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