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burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of <rs type="persName" id="t18130407-1-victim52"> <interp inst="t18130407-1-victim52" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, about the hour of eleven in the forenoon, on the <rs id="t18130407-1-cd3" type="crimeDate">18th of February</rs>
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, and stealing therein, two sheets, value 10 s. a blanket, value 4 s. a rug, value 1 s. and a tea-kettle, value 1 s. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t18130407-1-victim54"> <interp inst="t18130407-1-victim54" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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; three bonnets, value 3 s. a cap, value 1 s. 6 d. a neck handkerchief, value 1 s. and a band-box, value 6 d. </rs>
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. I lodge at the house of Benjamin Wallis, <rs type="placeName" id="t18130407-1-crimeloc4">19, Charles-street, Drury-lane</rs>
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. He does not live in that house. He lives in the same street, at No. 40. On the 18th of February, about ten in the morning, I went out of my apartment. I locked the door with a padlock. I returned about six o'clock in the evening; the padlock was then off. I missed my landlord's things. I went to <rs type="persName" id="t18130407-1-person58"> <interp inst="t18130407-1-person58" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, and accused her of it. She said, that <rs type="persName" id="t18130407-1-person59"> <interp inst="t18130407-1-person59" type="role" value=""></interp>
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had been in my apartment and had taken away the things. I went to Wallis. He came with me, and then the prisoner said the things were in her apartment, and she produced the articles.</p>
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. Q. You are the owner of this house in which the witness and the prisoner lived - A. Yes. I do not live in it myself.</p>
<p>Q. Do you remember the witness coming to you, and mentioning about the padlock of her door being taken off, and the things missing - A. Yes. I went back with her. I went to the prisoner's apartment. I saw my things in the prisoner's apartment. I have got my property.</p>
<p>Q. Have you them here - A. No, I have not. I had them here last sessions. I thought it was unnecessary to have them here again.</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>First Middlesex jury, before Lord Ellenborough.</p>
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