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stealing, on the <rs id="t17931204-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">1st of January</rs>
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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. </rs>
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sworn.</p>
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, and the prisoner were drinking together at an alehouse, the <rs type="placeName" id="t17931204-1-crimeloc3">Blackamore's Head, at Islington</rs>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Q. How do you know this? - The woman told me so.</p>
<p>Q. What do you know of your own knowledge? - He brought the bundle to me about five o'clock into my stable.</p>
<p>Q. When? - I cannot say the day of the month, nor month.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Q. Then he gave the bundle to you for the purpose of your wife's washing it? - Yes, he did.</p>
<p>Q. Was you present when it was opened? - No, it laid all day Monday and Tuesday; that is all I know.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am the wife of the last witness.</p>
<p>Q. What have you got there? - I have got a child.</p>
<p>Q. Have you got the bundle? - No.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Q. What is become of the prosecutor? - He is gone away</p>
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Not GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron PERRYN.</p>
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