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stealing three silk handkerchiefs, value 20 s. </rs>
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William Tilsley <interp inst="t17780916-68-victim567" type="surname" value="Tilsley"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17780916-68-viclabel362" type="occupation">linen-draper</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="t17780916-68-crimeloc363">Newgate-street</rs>
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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.</p>
<p>(The handkerchiefs were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)</p>
<p>- FLOYER sworn.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Mrs. TILSLEY sworn.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>PRISONER'S DEFENCE.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.</p>
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<note>[Branding. See summary.]</note>
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<note>[Imprisonment. See summary.]</note>
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