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, about ten in the forenoon of the <rs id="t17921031-6-cd35" type="crimeDate">17th of October</rs>
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, no person being therein, and stealing therein a man's hat, value 6 s. a velveret waistcoat, value 2 s. 6 d. and a linen shirt, value 12 d. his property </rs>
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. On Wednesday, the 17th of October, I was robbed; I went out at six in the morning, and returned at nine to breakfast; I went out at half past nine again; I left nobody there; I fastened the house by driving a large nail in the shutter; it is a cottage; I locked the door, and staid till ten, when I was called home, and found the window broke open, the nail broke in two, which I have in my pocket, and the pots of mirtles broke; there were the marks of patten rings all over the floor; there is but one boarded floor: it was a wet day: I found nobody in it: my neighbours were with me: the window was very low: I looked in my box, and missed a man's hat and a shirt, and a velveret waistcoat; the key was in the lock of the box, which was unlocked; I saw the prisoner go by in the morning, between six and seven, with a brickmaker, to a publick-house; I took the prisoner in the road going to Ball's Pond Turnpike, about half a mile from my house, about four in the afternoon; I took two duplicates from her; I gave them to Mr. Harper: I found all the things at Mrs. Pepperall's, a pawnbroker at Hoxton; the value of the hat was two shillings or half-a-crown; the waistcoat was almost new, worth two shillings and sixpence; the shirt is worth one shilling: my wife is not here.</p>
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<p>I am a pawnbroker at Hoxton town: (produces the things) the prisoner came with them to me on the 17th of October, between eleven and twelve, and pledged the things in the name of <rs type="persName" id="t17921031-6-person101"> <interp inst="t17921031-6-person101" type="role" value=""></interp>
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: I knew her before: I gave her three duplicates; I should know them again; she said they were her husband's.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I produce the things which I had from the pawnbroker's; I shewed her the duplicates, but I have since mislaid or lost them; the pawnbroker's is about a mile from Mr. How's house. (The things deposed to by the prosecutor).</p>
<p>Prisoner. A man asked me to pledge them, and gave me a shilling; he told me to put the duplicates into my pocket.</p>
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GUILTY 2 s. </rs>
(Aged 23),</p>
<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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