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I was in the prosecutor's shop, on the 2d of October the prisoner and two other girls came into the shop.
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Court. Did you see the prisoner come in? - Yes, with two other girls; they asked for a quarter of a pound of sixpenny butter, and a quarter of a pound of cheese; when I had weighed it, they would not have it; as soon as they were gone I missed the cheese; it was in the shop, about the middle, on a pile of cheeses; then I pursued them, and
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in the next street I caught hold of one of the girls, and she had not got the cheese; I slipped back to another, which is the prisoner, and found the cheese on the ground; she was leaning over it, and her cloak covering it.
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How long was this after she had quitted the shop? - Not two minutes.
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She had taken off her cloak? - The cloak was on the cheese on the ground; I took the cheese and the girl.
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The cheese produced and deposed to by Mr. Hilton, being marked.
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I have nothing to say, I have witnesses.
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury, before Mr.
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