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stealing, on the <rs id="t17820109-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">24th day of October</rs>
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last, one linen gown, value 5 s. one white linen apron, value 12 d. and two check linen aprons, value 12 d. </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I never saw the prisoner before the 25th of October, I know her now; on the 24th of October I went up stairs, about three o'clock, I found the club-room door open; my master keeps a public house; I saw an<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178201090003"></xptr>
old gown of mine thrown down on the bed, I went to my box, and found one cotton linen gown gone, one white apron and two coloured aprons gone; they were in the box before, and the key in it, I had seen them in the morning; my master detected the prisoner on the 25th of October in the house; he said, you are the little girl I have been looking for all day, but had no suspicion she had done it.</p>
<p>Cross-Examination.</p>
<p>Was you present at this time? - No; she took us to the pawnbroker's, I went with her; she confessed she had pawned them to my master and all of us.</p>
<p>What pawnbroker was it? - Mr. Cates; I went there, and we found the things there, the gown and the three aprons.</p>
<p>(They were produced in court, and deposed to by the witness.)</p>
<p>Prisoner. A girl bigger than myself ordered me to do it.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I keep the <rs type="placeName" id="t17820109-1-crimeloc4">King's Arms, Rolls Buildings, Fetter-lane</rs>
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; on the 24th of October last, my servant informed me somebody got into her room, she lay in the club-room; the next day a neighbour asked me if I saw a little girl go through the passage, I said no; I went up stairs, and saw the prisoner there, up three pair of stairs; I asked her what she wanted, she said one <rs type="persName" id="t17820109-1-person53"> <interp inst="t17820109-1-person53" type="role" value=""></interp>
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a bricklayer, they were at work on the outside of the house; I enquired amongst the bricklayers if there was a person of the name of Davis, they said no; I said to her, I have a suspicion you have robbed us, I threatened her a considerable time, she denied it; at last she owned she went up stairs with another girl, and took out the gown and three aprons, she confessed it; she said she and another girl; I made some enquiry about the other girl, she had been at service, and the people said she had not been out of the house that day; this girl confessed she had pawned them; I went to the pawnbroker's with my servant, and there they were found.</p>
<p>Court. What is the prisoner's age? - I am going on thirteen; my mother spins shoemaker's hemp, she lives in Church-yard Alley, Fetter-lane, and she has three children besides me.</p>
<p>What does she employ you about? - To wind the hemp.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>It was through the other girl that wanted the money.</p>
<p>(The girl's mother was called into Court, and said her daughter was thirteen years old, and that she had three other children.)</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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privately whipped </rs>
, and delivered to her mother.</p>
<p>Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.</p>
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