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, about the hour of four in the night of the <rs id="t17971025-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">5th of October</rs>
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, and stealing two pair of cotton stockings, value 6s. six pair of worsted stockings, value 8s. and twelve pair of leather shoes, value 15s. </rs>
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<p>JOHN BASNETT sworn. - I am a <rs id="t17971025-1-viclabel3" type="occupation">hosier and hatter</rs>
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: On Thursday the 5th of October, I went to bed between eleven and twelve; I fastened my house myself; between four and five in the morning, I was alarmed by the watchman; I came down and observed the pannel of the shutter cut out, and all the goods that were in the window gone; there were eight pair of cotton stockings, and about a dozen and a half of leather shoes; those in the indictment are only what have been found since I had seen them the evening before when I shut up my shop; I saw them the next morning at the Police Office, in Queen-square.</p>
<p>CHARLES WHATMORE sworn. - I am constable of St. Margaret's, Westminster: On the 6th of October, I apprehended the prisoner in Poet's Corner, Westminster-Abbey, upon suspicion; he had the things about him; I had heard of the robbery (producing the property): the prisoner offered them to me to sell, and that was the cause of my suspecting him; he had another man with him, and they took me to a private room to shew me them; he asked me eight shillings for the seven pair of stockings, and six shillings and sixpence for the shoes; I pretended I had not got any money, because I wished to get somebody to assist me; I went down to the landlord, and he laid hold of the other man, but he got away; the prisoner pulled me down stairs backwards, and got away, I ran after him, and called stop thief, and he was taken by Grain.</p>
<p>Cross-examined by Mr. Alley. Q. Have you any partners? - A. No.</p>
<p>Q. You never saw the prisoner about your premisses? - A. No.</p>
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sworn. - I am a watchman; I gave the alarm of the house being broke open.</p>
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sworn. - Having some business at the Transport-office, as I was going along I heard Whatmore cry stop thief, and I secured the prisoner.</p>
<p>Basnell. I believe them all to be mine; there is a mark of a bit of thread upon the pair of blue cotton stockings, that I made for the stocking dressers.</p>
<p>Cross-examined by Mr. Alley. Q. You make the same kind of mark, with a bit of thread, upon all that you send to the stocking-dressers? - A. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. And they go out into the world with that mark? - A. Yes.</p>
<p>Court. Q. Is there any property there that is not your own? - A. No.</p>
<p>Court. Q. Are they the same sort of goods that you lost? - A. Yes.</p>
<p>The prisoner left his defence to his Counsel, and called his serjeant who gave him a good character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Death </rs>
. (Aged 26.)</p>
<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.</p>
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