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were indicted for
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. On the 27th of September, about four o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoners Blacksley and Simmonds came into my shop under pretence of buying a shawl, they staid there some time bargaining with my shopman.
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Q. Were you in the shop. - A. I was; Blacksley stood with her back against some calico placed at the window with some wire before them; my attention was taken up with some customers that I had in the shop; when they were gone I missed Blacksley in a moment, and immediately I missed her I missed a piece of print out of the window. I asked Simmonds where she was gone, she said she did not know, I ran into the street and found her hiding herself at a gentleman's steps in St. Martin's lane; I told her she had stole a piece of print, she denied it, I brought her back to the shop, and I said to her you had better confess.
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Q. You must not tell what she said. - A. She had given the cotton to
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Q. Did you see Wood in the street. - A. No, not till Blacksley said where the print was, and delivered it up.
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- ANTHONY sworn. Q. You are an officer; all you know is finding these things. - A. Yes, in a court in Windmill street.
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Blackley's Defence. These two women are as innocent as a child unborn.
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(The property identified by the prosecutor.)
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BLACKSLEY - GUILTY.
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stealing only
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Confined One Year in the House of Correction
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First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
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