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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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8th of February
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, a cotton gown, value 5 s.
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the property of
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I am the wife of
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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,
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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.
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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.
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Mr. Garrow. Was he drunk or sober? - He appeared to be in liquor.
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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.
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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.
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(The gown was produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutrix.)
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I know nothing of the gown; I was in liquor when I was taken.
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The prisoner called two witnesses, who gave him a good character.
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Imprisoned six months
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.
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