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was indicted for
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stealing three silk handkerchiefs, value 20 s.
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the property of
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Aug. 14
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WILLIAM TILSLEY
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I am a
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. On the 14th of August when I came home in the evening the prisoner was in the shop; my wife was showing her some silk handkerchiefs, while she was looking over the handkerchiefs the apprentice gave me an item that he had some suspicion of the prisoner upon which I secured her, and she was sent up stairs and examined.
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(The handkerchiefs were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)
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- FLOYER sworn.
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I am apprentice to Mr. Tilsley. I was in the shop, and saw the prisoner as she was looking at the handkerchiefs put some up her petticoats; I saw the end of a piece.
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Mrs. TILSLEY sworn.
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The prisoner came into our shop on the 14th of August in the evening and asked to look at some handkerchiefs, I showed her some; being suspected, she was taken up stairs and I saw her searched; there were nine handkerchiefs fo und some where about her legs.
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PRISONER'S DEFENCE.
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I was going to take these handkerchiefs up, they dragged me up stairs; so they stuck to my stocking and the maid said she pulled them out of my stocking.
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.
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[Branding. See summary.]
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[Imprisonment. See summary.]
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