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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17890603-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">17th of May</rs>
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, fourteen silver table-spoons, value 30 s. and six silver desert-spoons, value 8 s. </rs>
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, junior, sworn.</p>
<p>On Sunday the 17th of May the prisoner waited upon me at dinner, he was a <rs id="t17890603-1-deflabel4" type="occupation">servant</rs>
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to my father; after dinner he ran away, the next morning I knew he was gone, and there were missing twenty silver<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178906030003"></xptr>
table-spoons; he lived with my father about a month.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>The prisoner, to the best of my knowledge, came to my shop; I am a silversmith in Red Lion-street, Whitechapel, I think it was the 20th, I am not positive, it was about dinner, between one and two, he produced a silver spoon, and said he wanted to sell it; I weighed it, and gave him five shillings an ounce for it; he went away, and in a short time brought five more; then I observed a crest upon them, and I asked him whose crest it was; he shook his head, and said it was his own crest; I weighed them, and paid him for them, and then he went away; the next morning on looking over the papers, I saw these same spoons advertised in the papers, I went to Bow-street, and met, I think, young Mr. Lockhart there.</p>
<p>Court. Are you sure the prisoner is the man who brought the spoons to you? - To the best of my knowledge I think it is the same man, I believe he is the person.</p>
<p>Have you any doubt about it? - He was not in this dress at all.</p>
<p>Have you any doubt whether it is the man or not? - I think I have no reason to doubt but it is the same person.</p>
<p>Do you doubt? - No, I do not doubt but it is the same person.</p>
<p>(The spoons produced and deposed to.)</p>
<p>Did this man, coming a second time with five more spoons, give you no suspicion? - Yes; on that account I went to Bow-street, thinking he lived in our neighbourhood, but I never saw him before in my life.</p>
<p>Court. It is very unguarded to buy such things of strangers? - It is very often done.</p>
<p>It ought not to be done, and you should bear in memory the case of the silversmith in the Strand; your business ought to be conducted with great caution, in buying old silver, both for your own sake and the sake of the public.</p>
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WILLIAM THURSTON <interp inst="t17890603-1-person52" type="surname" value="THURSTON"></interp>
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sworn,</p>
<p>I am servant to Mr. Payne. pawnbroker in Bloomsbury; I took this spoon of the prisoner at the bar on Monday the 18th of May; I am sure it was the prisoner.</p>
<p>(Deposed to.)</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I produce a table spoon which I received of the prisoner on Monday; it was pledged by him.</p>
<p>(Deposed to.)</p>
<p>Prosecutor. We have only recovered these eight, but the prisoner has confessed where the rest are.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I have nothing to say, but to beg my master's mercy, and the mercy of the Court; I have no witnesses.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
<p>Court to Prisoner. Your master has shewn you as much lenity as you deserve in not indicting you capitally; the crime of a servant robbing his master is so aggravated, that I am sure if you had been capitally convicted, I should not have recommended you to his Majesty's mercy.</p>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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