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stealing, on the <rs id="t17910413-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">19th of March</rs>
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, a silver table-spoon, value 10 s. </rs>
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sworn.</p>
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, sent his duty, and would be glad to speak to my master, he said he did not know him; I came and told him, he begged me to go up again; I had got up a few steps, and saw him open the parlour door, I returned and called my fellow servant, he came up, and the prisoner had just got out of the parlour, and was shuffling something into his pocket or breeches; he said he had taken nothing; I told him he had; and he held out the spoon; he went through the fore-parlour to the back-parlour, where the spoon was, and the cloth was laid. The prisoner was secured.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>Deposed to the same effect.</p>
<p>(The spoon produced and deposed to.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>The parlour-door was open; Mr. Gower's hat laid on a chair, and the spoon on another, and I took the spoon and said, I have cleaned these spoons many a time; I once lived a boy in the family. Mr. Garrow knows me, if I had money, and I supported Mr. Fox's election.</p>
<p>The prisoner called two witnesses to his character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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