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, about the hour of six in the <rs id="t17911026-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">14th day of August</rs>
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therein a child's skirt, value 1 s. a pair of child's stays, value 6 d a bank note, value 10 l. twenty pounds in money, and other things, his property </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I live at <rs type="placeName" id="t17911026-1-crimeloc3">No. 65, Gray's-inn-lane</rs>
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. I left my house on Sunday the 14th of August, about six in the afternoon, it was then safe; there was no person in my apartments, which are separate from the other parts of the house, and has a different entrance; it is a house let out in different tenements; the landlord does not reside in it; I left my house, and double locked the door about five, or half past five, and all my windows. I returned about a quarter past nine, or before ten, it was rather dark, not quite dark, I could discern people so as to know them. When I came up to my door a woman stood upon the step, I saw the prisoner in the shop; I immediately seized him, and took him with assistance to the Talbot; when he was searched there nothing was found upon him, but in the struggle I took a child's skirt and stays from him. I returned from the Talbot inn, and I got a lodger to stand at my door while I went to the Talbot. I found my drawers broke open by violence, I lost a 10 l. bank note, and about 20 l. in cash, gold and silver, some guineas, some half guineas, crowns and shillings. I have never recovered any part of my property. There was violence on the shop door, the lock appeared to be picked.</p>
<p>Mr. Knowlys, Prisoner's Counsel, Do you sleep at the Canns in Holborn? - No.</p>
<p>Who is it lets the apartments to you in Gray's inn-lane? - No one, I am the householder, I let out the apartments.</p>
<p>Who is your landlord? - Mr. Edmonds, two doors from me.</p>
<p>You found a woman at the door, she went away on your coming up? - Yes.</p>
<p>Did you say any thing about the stays at the Talbot? - I am not certain.</p>
<p>Do you know a man of the name of Turner? - Yes, very slightly.</p>
<p>Do you know Collyer? - Yes, I had a lodger of that name, the prisoner is acquainted with him.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am the wife of the last witness; I come to prove the property. (A child's skirt produced.) I have the fellow to this skirt, it is my property, I know it by being my own work; it was kept in a drawer that was broke open. I do not know when I saw it before, but I believe a week before; the value of it is about 18 d. the skirt and stays are attached to each other.</p>
<p>Mr. Garrow. Do you call these things skirt and stay, or stay and skirt? - Sometimes one and sometimes the other, they are washed separate, but worn together.</p>
<p>I suppose you call the thing which a child wears under its chin in the month a pair of stays? - No, I do not, I call it a stay.</p>
<p>(Mr. Garrow objected to the naming of the stays and skirt together, and said the indictment was erroneous. The Court overruled the objection.)</p>
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JOHN DAVID BURKENBUSH <interp inst="t17911026-1-person50" type="surname" value="DAVID BURKENBUSH"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>On the 14th of August two of my friends coming up Gray's-inn-lane, I heard the cry of stop thief. I saw the prisoner running; I stopped the prisoner, he was taken to the Talbot inn, the prosecutor had hold of him at the same time; I saw the prisoner put his right hand in his pocket, and throw something away, it looked like a handkerchief or napkin. I heard something sound, I followed the sound, and picked up an instrument, it is called a crow, I believe it is the same instrument.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. I dragged him out of my shop, he had like to have been too strong for me.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a clerk in a compting-house, I was walking along Gray's-inn-lane, I saw the prisoner throw something, which made a jingle, this is the instrument.</p>
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<p>I found this iron in the cradle, I went into the house when the noise was. I believe this is a crow, I found it in the room where the drawers were broke open.</p>
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<p>My Lord, when the prisoner at the bar was examined at Bow-street, Sir Sampson ordered me to go to the house, and try the crows; I did so, and they fitted every place that had been broke open. I have no doubt about the crows.</p>
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<p>I am a baker, I was standing at my own door, and I was sent for to take charge of the prisoner; I searched him, but found nothing but a handkerchief.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am an attorney at law; I saw the prosecutor and prisoner at the door of the Talbot, I was just come to town, and had put up my horse; they were struggling, the prisoner threw something out of his pocket, it made a jingle; I followed the found, I thought it might be picklock keys. This is the instrument picked up, I know it by its having been made out of a file.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>This person that prosecutes keeps a public-house, I was there, I wanted to go to the Peacock Burton Alehouse; I expected a friend to meet me, and left word I would be back very soon, in coming back they seized me; I know nothing more about it.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have conversed with the prosecutor many times. Brooker told me he had been robbed, that he had been out, that Kelly had been drinking at his other house; he said he suspected <rs type="persName" id="t17911026-1-person57"> <interp inst="t17911026-1-person57" type="role" value=""></interp>
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; searched Kelley, and found nothing upon him; I then said, you are mistaken in the man; he said he did not know whether he was the right man he was so flurried; he said he suspected another man, who lodged with him, and who owed him rent, and who had absconded.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was at the Talbot-inn, when the prisoner was searched, there was nothing found but a foul handkerchief in his breches.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was at the Talbot, when the prisoner was searched; I did not hear any thing of any skirt being found.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was going down Gray's-inn-lane, I walked fast, and trod upon a person's heels, he gave me many ill words; I begged his pardon: I cannot say the prisoner is the man.</p>
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GUILTY, 18 d. </rs>
not of the house breaking.</p>
<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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