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feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-victim50"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-victim50" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, about the hour of one in the afternoon, of the <rs id="t17930410-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">6th of February</rs>
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, no person being then in the said dwelling house; and stealing therein, three woollen coats, called flushing coats, value 40 s. one check apron, value 2 s. two linen caps and bands, value 6 d. one silk and cotton handkerchief, value 6 d. the goods of <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person51"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person51" type="role" value=""></interp>
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. Two pair of worsted stockings, value 18 d. a pair of thread stockings, value 4 d. two linen aprons, value 6 d. a case knife, value 6 d. and six shillings in monies numbered </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>My husband's name is <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person54"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person54" type="role" value=""></interp>
Thomas Collins <interp inst="t17930410-1-person54" type="surname" value="Collins"></interp>
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; I keep a room in <rs type="placeName" id="t17930410-1-crimeloc3">Redcross-street</rs>
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, a one pair of stairs; there is no one lives in the room but me and my husband, I have no servant; the house is let out in tenements, there is a lodger I believe above me, and below me, the landlord lodges next door, he has no part in the house.</p>
<p>Q. Is the house in which the landlord lives, by any way connected with the house in which you live? - No, not at all; my husband went out at six o'clock in the morning, I went out at half after seven, I padlocked the door, when I went out, I tried it to see if it was fastened, and it was; I returned about half an hour after one, my neighbours sent to me to tell me my place was open, and I went home immediately, when I came up stairs the door was wide open, some of the bed clothes were off the bed and some on; the staple of the door was drawn and broke, the padlock remained on the door not touched, I had left the things on the bed, the drawers were all open; there were no locks on them, every thing was taken out of the drawers entirely and thrown on the middle of the floor; all the things mentioned in the indictment were missing. <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person55"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person55" type="role" value=""></interp>
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is my father, but he left the box in my room with the things, and the box was locked in which the things were; that was the only box they broke open; I went the same day before the justice at two o'clock, and I swore to my property, I saw them there; there was nobody in the room when I came back; I saw the prisoner before justice Davis, in Lambert-street, Whitechapel, and I never saw him before in my life, the constable has the articles now; my husband never returned till eight or nine o'clock in the evening, when I went to fetch him, I had the key from six o'clock in the morning myself.</p>
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sworn.</p>
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; I was not in the room at the time of the robbery, my daughter came and told me of it, and I went there after the robbery, the lock of my box was broke open; I lost two coarse aprons, three pair of stockings, a case knife, and six shillings in silver.</p>
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sworn.</p>
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the 6th of February, I was coming out of Mr. Harris's pork shop, buying some sausages; and I saw <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person59"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person59" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, he was running; I asked him if they were running for a wager? they asked me if I had seen a man with a great coat on with a bundle? I said yes, I followed them, and I saw <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person60"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person60" type="role" value=""></interp>
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running with the bundle; I found him up by the Maypole East Smithfield, about two hundred yards from the house of the prosecutor; I got up to him and took the bundle from him, and two pair of stockings from underneath his jacket; I have kept these things from that time to this, Mrs. Collins and Mr. Robinson has seen them, and sworn to them. (The things produced.)</p>
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sworn,</p>
<p>I am a smith. On the 6th of February, at one o'clock, I went home to dinner, and I saw three men go up Mrs. Collins's stairs at one o'clock, the prisoner was one I am sure; at half past one I saw all three come down, I then observed the prisoner <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person62"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person62" type="role" value=""></interp>
William Mansfield <interp inst="t17930410-1-person62" type="surname" value="Mansfield"></interp>
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, he went through the street with the bundle at his back, and another with him, I did not know him before, and the other went another way; the other took nothing with him; the neighbours seeing these two, made an alarm, and I directly pursued after them till he was out of sight; when I got up to the top of Nightingale-lane, I saw Thomas Grayflower, and he had the prisoner in his hand, one of the same men that I had seen go up the stairs with the same bundle. I saw <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person63"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person63" type="role" value=""></interp>
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come down the stairs with the man; we then carried them before the justice.</p>
<p>JOSEPH NASH sworn.</p>
<p>I am an officer belonging to the public office Whitechapel; I know no more than he was apprehended, he was brought to our office and I searched him the same day, and found a case knife and an old handkerchief in his pocket. (The articles deposed to by Mr. Collins and <rs type="persName" id="t17930410-1-person64"> <interp inst="t17930410-1-person64" type="role" value=""></interp>
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.) The three flushing coats cost fifteen shillings a piece; and all the things are worth what are mentioned in the indictment.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I received the things of a man in the street, I was to have a shilling to carry them to the Green Man in Kent-street; they came up and took me and would not take the other man that I received the things from.</p>
<p>Court to Grayflower. What did he say when you took him, he gave no account at all.</p>
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GUILTY of stealing, to the value of 4 s. 6 d </rs>
. (Aged 22.)</p>
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Transported for four years </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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