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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t18120219-96-cd567" type="crimeDate">14th of February</rs>
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, a sheet, value 5 s. </rs>
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. I am a <rs id="t18120219-96-viclabel568" type="occupation">shopkeeper</rs>
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, 76, <rs type="placeName" id="t18120219-96-crimeloc569">Red Lion-street, Holborn</rs>
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. On Friday the 14th of February, between twelve and one, the prisoner knocked at my door; I admitted her in myself; I thought she was a visitor to one of my lodgers; I<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="181202190047"></xptr>
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, was sent up to wash her bed room, at two o'clock she was called to her dinner; between three and four o'clock, my house-keeper went into the room, she saw the bed was tumbled, she examined the bed, and found the sheet gone; I went up and saw a sheet gone, I went to the person in the next room, I asked her if she had any stranger there; she said no person but the prisoner, and she had gone out. I went in pursuit of the prisoner to the pawnbroker's, and on last Saturday I went to Mr. Page's shop, and identified the sheet.</p>
<p>- TAYLOR. I am shopman to Mr. Page, pawnbroker, Liquorpond-street. On the 14th of February, the prisoner pawned a sheet with me, I lent her three shillings upon it. I produce the sheet.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. It is my sheet, it is marked D. W. in two places.</p>
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. Q. Did you find your things - A. Yes.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence. I have no earthly friend to intercede for me, I beg for mercy.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
, aged 26.</p>
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Confined Six Months in the House of Correction </rs>
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fined 1 s. </rs>
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<p>First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Baron Wood.</p>
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