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stealing, on the <rs id="t18171203-1-cd2" type="crimeDate">10th of October</rs>
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, one watch, value 2l., and one handkerchief, value 5s., the goods of <rs type="persName" id="t18171203-1-victim46"> <interp inst="t18171203-1-victim46" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Thomas Foley <interp inst="t18171203-1-victim46" type="surname" value="Foley"></interp>
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, from his person </rs>
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THOMAS FOLEY <interp inst="t18171203-1-person47" type="surname" value="FOLEY"></interp>
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. On the 10th of October I went with the prisoner to her lodgings, in <rs type="placeName" id="t18171203-1-crimeloc3">Church-lane, St. Giles's</rs>
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. Between three and four o'clock in the morning, I awoke and found her gone-the door was fastened. I missed my neck-handkerchief and watch from under my pillow; I found them at the pawnbroker's the same day. I met her in the street at night, and secured her. I am sure she is the same woman.</p>
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. I am a pawnbroker. On the 11th of October, about nine o'clock in the morning, I took the watch in pledge of the prisoner - about an hour after she pledged the handkerchief; she said they belonged to her husband.</p>
<p>SAMUEL FURZEMAN. On the 11th of October the prisoner was brought into the watch-house; while I was searching her she dropped the duplicate of the handkerchief, and I found the duplicate of the watch upon her.</p>
<p>(Property produced and sworn to.)</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence. He owed me 2l.</p>
<p>GUILTY. Aged 30.</p>
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Stealing, but not from the Person </rs>
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Transported for Seven Years </rs>
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<p>First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Bayley.</p>
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