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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17960406-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">24th of February</rs>
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, two pair of worsted breeches, value 30s. and a pair of thickset breeches, value 5s. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17960406-1-victim45"> <interp inst="t17960406-1-victim45" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, privately, in his shop </rs>
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, jun. sworn.</p>
<p>My father is a <rs id="t17960406-1-viclabel4" type="occupation">silk dyer and scowerer</rs>
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: On the 24th of February my mother called to me, and told me, a boy was gone out of the shop; I followed him to the corner of Arrundel-street, and said, he had got something that did not belong to him; he said, he had not; I looked in his apron, and found three pair of breeches; two pair of stcoking breeches, and one pair of buff thickset; I never lost fight of him;(the things produced in Court), these are my father's property; I had seen them in the shop not ten minutes before the prisoner took them; they have our shop marks in the waistband.</p>
<p>- TALBOYS sworn.</p>
<p>I took these things out of the prisoner's apron.</p>
<p>Prisoner's defence. I was going along and saw these three pair of breeches lying upon the area rails; I enquired of a boy that I saw there, who they belonged to; he said, he did not know; and I put them in my apron, and this man came up.</p>
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GUILTY, of stealing, but not privately </rs>
.(Aged 15.)</p>
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Transported for seven years </rs>
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