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ELEANOR PLACE <interp inst="t17920912-16-defend192" type="surname" value="PLACE"></interp>
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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17920912-16-cd85" type="crimeDate">23d of August</rs>
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last, one pair of sheets, value 5 s. and other articles of furniture </rs>
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Charles Mason <interp inst="t17920912-16-victim194" type="surname" value="Mason"></interp>
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<p>CHARLES MASON sworn.</p>
<p>I let the prisoner a lodging at 2 s. 6 d. per week, it was furnished, there was a woollen rug, two flat-irons, and a copper tea-kettle; I gave her the irons on the 22d, on the 23d I asked her for the rent; I thought something was missing, and I called in the patrol and searched the lodging, and all the things were missing.</p>
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sworn.</p>
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know the prisoner, she said they were her own, she had lately received them from the country.</p>
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GUILTY. 40 s. </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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<note>[Imprisonment. See summary.]</note>
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