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was indicted for
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, and others of his family, being therein, about the hour of eleven in the forenoon, of the
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sworn. -
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is my father, we live at No. 9
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: On Tuesday morning, the 24th of December, I got up and left a pair of breeches and two waistcoats upon the bed, about seven o'clock in the morning; my mother stopped a woman with them in Wood-street; I was sent for about half past eleven o'clock to Guildhall, where I saw the clothes and the prisoner; my mother has had them ever since.
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sworn. - I am the mother of the last witness: I was in the lower room upon the ground-floor, about a quarter past eleven o'clock; I was cleaning the room, and a lodger in the two pair of stairs came down, and asked me if I had sent any body up to see Mr. Perry; and in consequence of what she told me I went out, and saw the prisoner run down the street; I pursued the prisoner into a coach-yard, in Wood-street; I laid hold of her by the skirt of her gown, and desired to see what she had got in her apron, and she refused till the officer came up; I found a pair of breeches, and two waistcoats, in her apron.
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Q. What room is it your son sleeps in? - A. The two pair of stairs.
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ELIZABETH NEWMAN sworn. - I lodge at Mr. Perry's: I saw the prisoner go up stairs; I was in my own room, up two pair of stairs, my room-door was open; I asked her if she was going up to see Mr. Perry, and she said, yes; she went down stairs again in about ten minutes, she went down very quick; she run out into the street, and I gave Mrs. Perry notice of it.
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. These are my waistcoats, and these are my breeches, they were left in the room.
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Prisoner's defence. On Monday night, in the Christmas week, I met with Mr. Perry in Smithfield, and went with him and had some purl; and then he took me up into this room, and asked me to oblige him with my company for a quarter of an hour, and he would give me half-a-crown; he said he had no money, and desired me to call the next day; and he said I was come too soon, he had no money, and he gave me the things to pledge; it was not that young man, but the elderly man.
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Q.(To Mrs. Perry.) Is there any elderly man lives in your house? - A. There is my husband, but he has been ill in bed these eight months.
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(Aged 21.)
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Of stealing the goods, but not guilty of breaking and entering the dwelling-house.
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Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE.
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