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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17930911-101-cd559" type="crimeDate">8th of September</rs>
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, one guinea, four shillings and six-pence </rs>
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Charles Wright <interp inst="t17930911-101-victim1110" type="surname" value="Wright"></interp>
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<p>I am a single man; I was going along up <rs type="placeName" id="t17930911-101-crimeloc560">Ludgate-hill</rs>
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, this woman got hold of me and asked me to go along with her; it was about half after twelve o'clock, I believe the 8th of this month of September, the woman got hold of me and asked me to go along with her, I refused her, I said no, I would not, with that she said I had better, and I felt her fumbling about my breeches, I pushed her hand away, and desired her to be quiet; she came up to me again, and said I had better go, and began fumbling about my breeches again, and by some means she got her hand into my breeches pocket, and she took a guinea and some silver out of my pocket.</p>
<p>Q. Did you perceive the money go? - I did not perceive her take it out, but I felt the money go from me,</p>
<p>Q. Did you see the money in her hand? - No, I did not see the money in her hand, I got hold of her and she called out watch, and the watchman he came up, and I gave charge of her directly.</p>
<p>Q. Was she examined? - Yes, at the watch-house.</p>
<p>Q. Did you find any money on her? - Yes, a guinea, and two shillings in<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="179309110167"></xptr>
her mouth; I saw it taken out of her mouth, she was further searched and there was two shillings and six-pence found about her.</p>
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<p>I am a watchman on Ludgate-hill; I was on the beat when this man was robbed, and I heard the watch cried, and I ran down and this gentleman gave me charge of the woman for robbing him of a guinea and some silver; I brought her to the watch-house and saw her examined, there was a guinea and two shillings got out of her mouth; we quitted the room, and then she was more strictly examined, and there was an half crown found.</p>
<p>Q. Then the last witness did not see the two shillings and six-pence taken from her? - The other witness was present but I was not present.</p>
<p>Q. What was done with the guinea and two shillings? - The constable of the night has got it, he is here.</p>
<p>Q. Did she give any account of this money? - She made some equivocation about it, she said that she got it of some friends and relations of very great property.</p>
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THOMAS WARREN <interp inst="t17930911-101-person1113" type="surname" value="WARREN"></interp>
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<p>I am one of the beadles of our ward, and I was officer of the night, between the hours of twelve and one the prisoner was brought in and charged with robbing the man of a guinea and some silver, and he said that there were two remarkable pieces, a shilling and a six-pence, when they brought her in I saw her dribbling down the mouth, and I suspected she had got it in her mouth, I searched her and found she had it, and at last with a deal of trouble, I got one guinea and two shillings out of her mouth, she had two pockets on, and out of her pockets I took the money out myself two shillings and six-pence, which answered the description the man gave me of the sixpence, it was a new six-pence with a hole punched just at the edge of it quite through, the shilling was stamped with a letter A in the middle of it; she said she had received some money of some man coming along, and she put it into her mouth for fear of being robbed to take care of it; I have got the money about me. (Produces it.)</p>
<p>Q. How much of that money can you swear to? what do you know the shilling by? - By the letter in the middle.</p>
<p>Q. How do you know the six-pence? - It being a new six-pence and a little hole in the edge.</p>
<p>Court to Prosecutor. When had you last seen your money before the girl had taken it from you in the course of that day? - I don't know that I had it out since I put it in my pocket in the morning.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I had been down to Gravesend along with a young man, and he took his money and he gave me a guinea and some silver; I came from the Gravesend boat, and going along I met that young man and he told me he would give me six-pence; I told him I would not oblige him for six-pence; so with that he gave me a shilling; he wanted me to have connection with him in the street; I told him I would not except he would go home with me; he said then he would be revenged, he called out watch; and said he was robbed; with that I was taken to the watch-house, and the constable of the night took one guinea and two shillings out of my mouth; he gave me the six-pence and the shilling for obliging him, but I would not oblige him in that place.</p>
<p>Court to Prosecutor. On your oath did you give her this money? - No.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
. (Aged 40.)</p>
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Imprisoned six months in the House of Correction </rs>
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fined 1 s. </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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