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was indicted for
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, two mens linen shirts, value 2s. a smock frock, value 6d. a pair of cotton stockings, value 6d. and a pair of worsted stockings, value 6d.
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The prosecutor,
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Q. Was you in their company? - I was not; I know nothing only what the prisoner at the bar said; he left the bundle that night at another woman's house.
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Q. How do you know this? - The woman told me so.
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Q. What do you know of your own knowledge? - He brought the bundle to me about five o'clock into my stable.
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Q. When? - I cannot say the day of the month, nor month.
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Q. Did you examine the contents of this bundle? - No, I never opened it at all, he laid it down and said, here is a bundle of clothes for you to carry home for your wife to wash and mend, I took it home to my wife.
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Q. Then he gave the bundle to you for the purpose of your wife's washing it? - Yes, he did.
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Q. Was you present when it was opened? - No, it laid all day Monday and Tuesday; that is all I know.
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I am the wife of the last witness.
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Q. What have you got there? - I have got a child.
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Q. Have you got the bundle? - No.
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Q. Any of the particulars mentioned in the indictment? - No, the bundle came to me to wash and mend, my husband delivered it to me.
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Q. Did you open it? - My little girl opened it, there were two shirts in it and a smock frock, two pair of stockings, and a pair of cotton stockings; I did nothing with them, I had not time before they were taken away from me by the constable; the owner had them again.
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Q. What is become of the prosecutor? - He is gone away
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron PERRYN.
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