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James Admun <interp inst="t17881210-1-victim54" type="surname" value="Admun"></interp>
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, about the hour of twelve in the night, on the <rs id="t17881210-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">11th day of November</rs>
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last, and burglariously stealing therein, five pair of Mocoa sleeve buttons, value 5 d. twenty-nine shirt pins,<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178812100003"></xptr>
value 6 d. three stone ditto, value 6 d. a spying glass, value 6 d. three pair of stone ear-rings, value 1 s. eight metal shirt buttons, value 1 d. five metal watch trinkets, value 6 d. a breast buckle, value 1 d. three paper snuff boxes, value 1 s. thirteen gilt pinchbeck rings, value 1 s. a tortoise-shell snuff-box, value 1 s. a dimity waistcoat, value 6 d. a Bath beaver great coat, value 2 s. two cloth coats, value 2 s. a pair of corduroy breeches, value 10 s. six pair of shoes, value 15 s. a pair of cotton stockings, value 6 d. three linen table cloths, value 10 s. an oil skin umbrella, value 5 s. and one pair of stone shoe buckles, value 5 s. his property </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>My house was broke open the 11th of November; I live in Rupert-street; I was out all night; I came home in the morning; the weather being so damp, and the bottom of the house being bricks, I thought it unwholesome to be there; and I took another lodging; nobody was in the house but myself.</p>
<p>Did you follow any business? - Yes, I <rs id="t17881210-1-viclabel3" type="occupation">kept a sort of cloaths shop</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="t17881210-1-crimeloc4">Rupert-street</rs>
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; I had slept there a few days before; I went there in the morning between eight and nine, and I saw the door was pulled to, and the padlock broke off, and inside the door; I had locked it on the outside; the hasp was taken out, and off; it was my home, because I slept in it.</p>
<p>Whose house was it in? - It is by itself; it belongs to Mr. Watson; - it has only one room; there is a place adjoining to it, but there is only one door, it is a shop.</p>
<p>Whose house is it in, Mr. Watson's? - It is not in any house; it's a shop by itself, adjoining to the stable yard; there is no rooms over it, there are rooms adjoining to it; that was the place where I used to sleep in, till two days before that happened; there is my bed now, and all the things in it; there are places above, and it joins to it, but there is no room above it; Mr. Watson is the landlord, he left them all out in separate tenements; this place joins to another place and shop.</p>
<p>What time had you left it that night? - Between the hours of six and seven on the 11th of November; I had fastened the window, and padlocked it on the outside; I had got a new lock on purpose; I missed the things mentioned in the indictment; and saw my property soon after at the watch-house.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>On the 12th of last month I was calling the hour of five; I stopped the prisoner in Holborn with a bundle, between the two Turn-stiles; I called after him, and asked him what he had got: he said he had cloaths; I asked him where he was going with them; he said to Islington, to take a coach - to go to Woolwich, to send his cloaths to his friends in the country; I asked him if he had any directions? he said no, he would send the directions by the coach; I told him I must take him to the watch-house, which I did; he was searched; he had three coats, and buckles, and pins in his pockets, and snuff-boxes, and a pair of silver shoe buckles, and three pair of stuff shoes, and a great coat on his back, which the prosecutor swore to; the officer of the night searched him, and has the things.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am constable of the night; the prisoner was brought into the watch-house about five, on the 12th of November, it was not then light; I searched him, and found a linen table cloth, new, round his body between his waistcoat and his shirt, and three pair of women's stuff shoes in his pockets, and a number of things, such as snuff-boxes, ladies ear-rings, ladies hair pins, gentlemens shirt pins, which are mentioned in the indictment; I have had them ever since; and the prosecutor, the next morning before the magistrate, said he had lost a pair of stone buckles set in silver; them I found afterwards in the office, in the linings of his breeches below his pockets;<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178812100004"></xptr>
I took them out, they were a very small pair; he said very little, I asked him his name, he did not chuse to tell me; in the morning he was taken before the magistrate; he told his name to Justice Walker.</p>
<p>(The things produced and deposed to.)</p>
<p>Prosecutor. This great coat was on him, I know it, it had been a gentleman's dressing coat, I had not had it above a fortnight, I noticed it because it was so full of powder, I could not know it from another dressing coat; I know the breeches to be mine, I cannot swear to the shoes, there is no mark in them, I bought them at a sale in Oxford-road; I know the tortoise-shell snuff-box, because it is in-laid with silver, and there is a little bit of the silver out; I am sure of that; I believe the buttons to be mine; this green striped coat I can swear to, because there are some drops upon it; and the brown coat has been turned; I am sure of them; I believe these things to be mine; I have lost every thing that is here.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I was going from Milbank to fetch the midwife, and picked up this bundle, and going a little further I found a coat, and put it on, it was very cold; and they took me into custody; I told them I found the things.</p>
<p>How came you with a table cloth wrapped round you? - That was in the coat, and all these things were in the coat pocket; I have a witness that saw me pick them up, his name is <rs type="persName" id="t17881210-1-person58"> <interp inst="t17881210-1-person58" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, (called but did not appear).</p>
<p>Mrs. MANSELLER sworn.</p>
<p>I had been very ill all night, I sent him to the midwife early in the morning; he picked up this bundle; I live in the neighbourhood where he was born, and in which I was born; our characters are well known.</p>
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ISAAC WOOD <interp inst="t17881210-1-person60" type="surname" value="WOOD"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a writing master, in Compton-street, No. 49, I have known the prisoner's nineteen years they were lodgers to me and they paid me honestly.</p>
<p>Have you known him lately? - I have lately, he has lived in Rupert-street; I have known the prisoner nineteen years.</p>
<p>Does his mother live in Rupert-street too? - Yes.</p>
<p>Not at Milbank? - No, no, Sir, I know nothing of Milbank; they are very honest people on my oath and conscience I do believe; he is a shoe-maker.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a boot-closer, No. 1, Carnaby-street; I have known the prisoner this three years, he lives in Rupert-street with his father and mother.</p>
<p>Not at Milbank, Westminster? - No, Rupert-street.</p>
<p>Mrs. Manseller. We live in Rupert-street; I have intrusted the prisoner with goods, and they all went safe; I know him to be a good lad so far.</p>
<p>Peter Blade, also gave him a very good character.</p>
<p>Court to Prisoner. How came you to say you was going from Mibank to fetch the midwife?</p>
<p>Prisoner. To Holborn I said.</p>
<p>What did you say about Milbank?</p>
<p>Prisoner. I did not say any thing about Milbank.</p>
<p>The Court then called to Mr. Hodgson, the short hand writer, who read the prisoner's defence. [That he was going from Milbank to fetch the midwife.]</p>
<p>Court to Prisoner. Where did you pick up the things? - In Richmond-street.</p>
<p>Where did the midwife live? - In Holborn.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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. Aged 15.</p>
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. This unfortunate young man has given in his age now to the court, in a written defence handed up to me; that he is fifteen years of age and you have sworn that you have known him nineteen years? - I swore that I knew his father and mother nineteen years.</p>
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You swore that you knew him nineteen years, and you ought to be committed? - I am before God as well as you.</p>
<p>Yes, and you ought to have paid attention to that. - I meant to say that I knew his father and mother nineteen years.</p>
<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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