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THOMAS WILLIAMS <interp inst="t17880227-32-defend371" type="surname" value="WILLIAMS"></interp>
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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17880227-32-cd163" type="crimeDate">8th of February</rs>
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, a cotton gown, value 5 s. </rs>
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Richard Middleton <interp inst="t17880227-32-victim373" type="surname" value="Middleton"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
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Richard Middleton <interp inst="t17880227-32-person375" type="surname" value="Middleton"></interp>
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; I lost a gown on Friday, the 8th of February.</p>
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WILLIAM SMITH <interp inst="t17880227-32-person376" type="surname" value="SMITH"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a green grocer; on the 8th of February, between three and four o'clock, I was standing at the door; I saw the prisoner come out of the house, <rs type="placeName" id="t17880227-32-crimeloc164">No. 6, Bow-street, Bloomsbury</rs>
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, with this gown under his left arm; a gentlewoman came down stairs, and cried, stop thief! he was taken by another person and brought back; I am sure he is the person.</p>
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JOHN BEAMISH <interp inst="t17880227-32-person377" type="surname" value="BEAMISH"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I belong to the General Insurance-Office; I know nothing but taking the prisoner into custody and searching him; he had nothing but some duplicates upon him, his own property.</p>
<p>Mr. Garrow. Was he drunk or sober? - He appeared to be in liquor.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a shoemaker; I saw the prisoner go into the house, No. 6, Bow-street, the door was open; I did not see him come out; upon the alarm I pursued him, and found him in a necessary in Church-street; he had nothing about him but some duplicates; I knew him to be the same man I saw go into the prosecutor's house; when I saw him in the necessary, he was standing up in the soil; when I took him to the Justice's, they took him to a pump and washed him.</p>
<p>Middleton. Smith picked up the gown and gave it me; it was hanging at the back of the door in my bed-room, the back room up two pair of stairs; I was sitting in the front room; there was a little boy in bed in the room gave the alarm.</p>
<p>(The gown was produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutrix.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I know nothing of the gown; I was in liquor when I was taken.</p>
<p>The prisoner called two witnesses, who gave him a good character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Imprisoned six months </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.</p>
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