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burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of <rs type="persName" id="t17880910-1-victim51"> <interp inst="t17880910-1-victim51" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
George Ashton <interp inst="t17880910-1-victim51" type="surname" value="Ashton"></interp>
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, about the hour of one in the night, on the <rs id="t17880910-1-cd3" type="crimeDate">first day of September</rs>
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instant, and burglariously stealing therein two brass cocks, value 1 s. </rs>
his property.</p>
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A second Count. For burglariously breaking and entering the said dwelling-house on the same day, with intent to steal his goods.</p>
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<p>I <rs id="t17880910-1-viclabel4" type="occupation">keep a public house</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="t17880910-1-crimeloc5">Saltpetre Bank</rs>
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; on the first of September I went to bed at twelve, and was alarmed between one and two that my house was all open; I fastened my house myself; I got up immediately; my doors were wide open, and my liquors all running about; I then made to my street door to see where they got in; I found nobody there; I observed they had broke the cellar window; I went down into the cellar and there was a board laid over; in my fright I did not observe whether it was undone or not; I lost two brass cocks, they were never found again; in the cellar I saw the prisoner lay all along; he was not drunk; I called to my wife to bring me down a blunderbuss; I saw him and another man; he got up and begged for mercy and surrendered himself, the other man made his escape; he was searched at the watch-house, but nothing was found upon him; the brass cocks were in my casks at night, they were fastened to the leather pipes; they had opened the till in the bar, but there was no money there.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a watchman; I took charge of the prisoner; I found him within a yard of the bar when the cellar door was broke open.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>Gentlemen; this gentleman's is a house that I have used for many years; every time I go to sea, when I come home when I can get work, that gentleman and his wife they get my money till I spend it; I have got myself in liquor many and many a night, and they have trusted me to lay in the house many a night; that night I was very much in liquor, there were three of my shipmates and me drinking all the afternoon in the house till one o'clock; my money was all gone, and the gentleman lent me half a pint of gin on my handkerchief; and there is a passage to go through into the alley and I fell down into the cellar, and my shipmate went back to tell the gentleman and his wife that I was down in the cellar, and in the morning the master said that my shipmate did tell him so.</p>
<p>Court to Prosecutor. Was he drunk when you found him in the cellar? - He was not to say drunk.</p>
<p>Court to Pentelow. What do you say? - He was not drunk.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. He had been drinking an hour or two at our house.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Death </rs>
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