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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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, three quarters of a yard of carpeting, value 2s. 6d. four yards of ticking, value 3s. and one yard of chintz border, value 1s.
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the property of
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GARVEN SHOTTER sworn. - I am an
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; I lost the property mentioned in the indictment; the prisoner is a woman that
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: Last Wednesday morning I saw a roll of ticking moved from the glass-case where it was kept; in consequence of that, I had reason to believe I was robbed; I went out, and left orders with an apprentice,
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, that the women should not go till I returned; when I came home about twelve o'clock, I enquired, and they told me that the woman had run away without her cloak; I sent Evans to her lodgings, he brought her back, I found nothing upon her; there was some property found at her lodgings, but I was not present.
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Cross-examined by Mr. Alley. Q. You saw the ticking lying in your shop? - A. Yes.
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Q. You had other people at work in your shop besides the prisoner? - A. Yes.
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sworn. - I am a constable; Mr. Shotter sent for me last Friday; I went with William Evans to the prisoner's lodgings; I asked her if that was her room, she said, yes; I asked her if she would give me leave to look round the room; she said, by all means; I found some articles which Evans said were his master's; there were three quarters of a yard of carpeting on the floor, some pieces of ticking, and a yard of chintz border. (Produces them).
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Cross-examined by Mr. Alley. Q. The prisoner very fairly shewed you every thing? - A. Yes.
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Q. Did you find four yards of ticking - that that you have produced is a bed, is it not? - A. It is a mattrass.
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Q. Did you find four yards of ticking? - A. No.
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Q. That piece of carpeting you found openly on the floor? - A. Yes.
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Q. And where is the chintz - do you call that bundle of rags chintz? - A. Yes.
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sworn. - I am an apprentice to Mr. Shotter: On Friday evening last I went with the officer to the prisoner's lodgings, and found those things that are here.
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Q. Where did you find the ticking? - A.Between the sacking and the bed, made up in a kind of mattrass, stuffed with new hair, and some small bits of ticking besides; this ticking that is stuffed, I can swear to be my master's property.
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Q. Was it a mattrass when your master lost it? - A. No, we had used it as a wrapper to keep the goods from the wet.
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Q. How do you know it to be your master's property? - A.Because I knew the pattern of the tick; I have opened the ticking, and in the inside of it there are some marks of dirt, which I remember very well.
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Q. What is the value of that ticking in the state in which you used it? - A. About three shillings; I have another piece of carpeting here which matches exactly with that which was found at the prisoner's lodgings, that is worth about two shillings; I remember the pattern of this chintz border very well, it is worth about one shilling, we bought it at a linen-draper's in Cheapside.
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Cross-examined by Mr. Alley. Q. That piece of border was publickly sold in the linen-draper's shop? - A. Not by anction.
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Q. Was it not publicly sold in the shop? - A. I do not know how public it was.
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Q. If I had a bit of carpet of the same size and pattern, you would have suspected me? - A. If it had been that identical piece, I should have suspected you.
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Q. And the mattrass was concealed under that bed, where mattrasses ought to be? - A. No, not where it ought to be, it ought to be upon my master's premises.
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sworn. - I work at Mr. Shotter's: Last Wednesday morning, I went to work about ten minutes before nine, and Mrs. Moore was there before me; she came from the further end of the shop where the ticking was found afterwards; I asked her if she had been at work, and she said, no, she was poorly; she then went towards the fire, and then into a corner where the horse-hair was kept, and I followed her there, and saw her stoop towards the place where I afterwards saw the roll of ticking lay; she seemed as if she had something more than common under her petticoats, for she kept pulling it up all the morning; before twelve o'clock she went away without her cloak.
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Cross-examined by Mr. Alley. Q. The roll of ticking that you saw in the shop, is still there, is it not? - A. Yes.
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Q.It is not charged in the indictment? - A.No.
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Mr. Shotter. I can speak to the ticking, I mean the mattrass, and to the carpeting; it is a Russia
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ticking, and a very uncommon thing, we have used it as a wrapper; and the carpeting I know by the pattern, and by the quantity that was missing.
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Prisoner's defence. That mattrass belongs to my mother, who lives with me; there is that piece of carpet, and another small piece, I bought; and there was another small piece that was given me, with a work-bag, by this woman, Mrs Green.
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The prisoner called two witnesses, who gave her a good character.
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Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.
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