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RICHARD TREVAIS <interp inst="t17920329-39-defend437" type="surname" value="TREVAIS"></interp>
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stealing, on the <rs id="t17920329-39-cd220" type="crimeDate">12th of March</rs>
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, nine silk handkerchiefs, value 30 s. </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17920329-39-viclabel221" type="occupation">linen draper</rs>
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, No. 120, <rs type="placeName" id="t17920329-39-crimeloc222">Oxford-street</rs>
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. On the 12th of March I lost nine<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="179203290039"></xptr>
silk handkerchiefs from the door of my shop; they were affixed to the door post; I saw them five minutes after they had been taken; a person whom I do not know picked them up, and gave them to me: the prisoner was taken immediately by <rs type="persName" id="t17920329-39-person441"> <interp inst="t17920329-39-person441" type="role" value=""></interp>
William Earl <interp inst="t17920329-39-person441" type="surname" value="Earl"></interp>
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<p>(The handkerchiefs produced and deposed to.)</p>
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<p>I was passing by Mr. Billett's, the 12th of March, about half past five, and I saw the prisoner take these handkerchiefs off from the door-post; he was going along the street, and rolling them up; I pursued and took him; hearing a person speak to me, he ran across Oxford-road, and dropt the handkerchiefs in the middle of the road; I ran after him, he fell down, and I took him: these are the handkerchiefs.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>A man took the handkerchiefs, and chucked them down, and I took them up.</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 Lord KENYON.</p>
<p>Court. Where do you come from? speak the truth now.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I was born in Bandy-leg-walk; I came out of Drury-lane.</p>
<p>What has been your employment? - I am a <rs id="t17920329-39-deflabel225" type="occupation">leather clog maker</rs>
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, I have been employed by Mr. Crouch, in the Hay-market.</p>
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