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was indicted for
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stealing, on the
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24th day of October
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the goods of
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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
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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.
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Cross-Examination.
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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.
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What pawnbroker was it? - Mr. Cates; I went there, and we found the things there, the gown and the three aprons.
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(They were produced in court, and deposed to by the witness.)
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Prisoner. A girl bigger than myself ordered me to do it.
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I keep the
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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
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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.
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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.
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What does she employ you about? - To wind the hemp.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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It was through the other girl that wanted the money.
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(The girl's mother was called into Court, and said her daughter was thirteen years old, and that she had three other children.)
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Having been eleven weeks in confinement, was ordered to be
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.
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