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feloniously stealing on the <rs id="t17821204-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">2d of October</rs>
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last ten pounds weight of cheese, value 3 s. 4 d. </rs>
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Thomas Hilton <interp inst="t17821204-1-victim49" type="surname" value="Hilton"></interp>
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THOMAS HILTON <interp inst="t17821204-1-person50" type="surname" value="HILTON"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17821204-1-viclabel3" type="occupation">cheesemonger</rs>
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, I live in <rs type="placeName" id="t17821204-1-crimeloc4">Whitechapel</rs>
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; on the 2d of October I lost some cheese out of my shop, my servant told me of it; I know nothing further, only the property being mine.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was in the prosecutor's shop, on the 2d of October the prisoner and two other girls came into the shop.</p>
<p>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<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178212040003"></xptr>
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.</p>
<p>How long was this after she had quitted the shop? - Not two minutes.</p>
<p>She had taken off her cloak? - The cloak was on the cheese on the ground; I took the cheese and the girl.</p>
<p>The cheese produced and deposed to by Mr. Hilton, being marked.</p>
<p>PRISONER.</p>
<p>I have nothing to say, I have witnesses.</p>
<p>The prisoner brought two witnesses, who gave her a good character.</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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Baron HOTHAM <interp inst="t17821204-1-person52" type="surname" value="HOTHAM"></interp>
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