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, (a blind boy) was indicted for <rs id="t17871024-1-off1" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17871024-1-off1" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of <rs type="persName" id="t17871024-1-victim47"> <interp inst="t17871024-1-victim47" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Joseph Short <interp inst="t17871024-1-victim47" type="surname" value="Short"></interp>
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, about the hour of twelve in the night, on the <rs id="t17871024-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">22d of September</rs>
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Uriah Monk <interp inst="t17871024-1-victim49" type="surname" value="Monk"></interp>
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, in the said dwelling-house </rs>
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<p>The Witnesses examined apart.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I found my house was broke open; I was at home fast asleep; it was on the 22d of last month; the property belonged to <rs type="persName" id="t17871024-1-person51"> <interp inst="t17871024-1-person51" type="role" value=""></interp>
Uriah Monk <interp inst="t17871024-1-person51" type="surname" value="Monk"></interp>
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, left in my care, he is abroad; I got up at six o'clock, it was twelve at night when I went to bed; there were two rooms on a floor; my house and windows were fast when I went to bed; I nevet saw the prisoner in my life before he came to the mantle-piece, and one of the plates tumbled down, and that awoke me; it was twelve o'clock, I did not see him, but I threw a shoe at him; when I jumped out of bed, I took a poker, and he begged of me not to strike him any more; he said he was a lodger; I took him into custody and he struck me; I called my neighbour Dodd to my assistance, he came with a light; then the prisoner dropped the things, which he had under his arm; the man brought the things for my wife to wash that very same night.</p>
<p>Prisoner. He says he went to bed at twelve, and I disturbed him at twelve.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. It was past twelve.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Now, he says it was past twelve.</p>
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JOHN DODD <interp inst="t17871024-1-person52" type="surname" value="DODD"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am neighbour to the prosecutor, I was not gone to bed; as nigh as I can guess, it was between twelve and one; I heard a cry of murder, a woman cried that somebody was killing her husband; when I went, the prisoner and the prosecutor were fighting, there was a box broke open, and a shirt and some things were thrown about; the prosecutor accused him of having broke his box open, and stole out a pair of breeches and some things; the box was broke open under the window where the man got in.</p>
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ABRAHAM DAWSON <interp inst="t17871024-1-person53" type="surname" value="DAWSON"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am constable; I produce some things which were given to me by the prosecutor; I know nothing of the robbery, the man was in the watch house before I had charge of him; I marked them after I had them given to me, to see that they were the same that were given to me.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. They are the same things, I can swear to them.</p>
<p>Court to Prosecutor. How did this man come into the house? - The window was open, it was fastened the night before, and was secure.</p>
<p>Prisoner. These people used to keep the house and let lodgings, it is a kind of house for two-penny lodgings, and when I had no money, this was a place that was always open, as the neighbours told me; it is a lower place like a kind of shed, and when I had no money, I used to go and lay in there, and when I had money, I paid for my bed; I went to lay there, and this man laid hold of me; I have not got a friend in the world.</p>
<p>Jury to Prosecutor. Do you pay any rent for your place? - Yes; I pay the rent, it is my house.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Death </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.</p>
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