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stealing three pair of silver shoe-buckles, value 6 l. </rs>
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, the corner of <rs type="placeName" id="t17770115-1-crimeloc4">Suffolk-street, Charing-cross</rs>
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: upon the 6th of December, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, I opened the case and missed a pair of buckles; my master came into the shop and missed two more; on examination we found a piece of the glass broke out; I had seen them at three o'clock the preceding day.</p>
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[ Two pair were produced in court by Grubb the constable, and one pair by <rs type="persName" id="t17770115-1-person51"> <interp inst="t17770115-1-person51" type="role" value=""></interp>
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the pawnbroker, and deposed to by the witness.]</p>
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<p>I am a constable: upon the 5th of Decem. I went into a pawnbroker's in Holborn, and found <rs type="persName" id="t17770115-1-person53"> <interp inst="t17770115-1-person53" type="role" value=""></interp>
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offering these buckles to pawn; the pawnbroker would not take them in; I stopped the woman and secured the buckles; she took me to her house and shewed me the prisoner, who she said she had the buckles of: I took him into custody; she said to him, How could you bring me into a scrape, by sending me to pawn buckles that were stole, and he acknowledged he gave her the buckles, and hoped we would be as favourable to him as we could.</p>
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<p>I am servant to Mr. Lane, a pawnbroker: I took in a pair of silver buckles of <rs type="persName" id="t17770115-1-person55"> <interp inst="t17770115-1-person55" type="role" value=""></interp>
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on the 5th of Dec. in the evening she came afterwards with the other two pair, and Grubb stopped her and the buckles.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I went to Mr. Lane's in Holborn with a pair of buckles; <rs type="persName" id="t17770115-1-person57"> <interp inst="t17770115-1-person57" type="role" value=""></interp>
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the shopman took them in of me.</p>
<p>Who gave you the buckles? - The prisoner: I keep a cloaths-shop in King-street; he brought them to me and asked me to buy them; I said, I don't know the worth of them; he asked me to go and pawn them for him, and I went to pawn them; I am sure the prisoner is the boy.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>As I was crossing Long Acre I saw the buckles lay on the ground rolled up in paper; I picked them up, and not knowing what to do with them I took them to this woman.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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