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was indicted for
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stealing, on the
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, one watch, value 2l., and one handkerchief, value 5s., the goods of
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, from his person
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. On the 10th of October I went with the prisoner to her lodgings, in
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(Property produced and sworn to.)
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Prisoner's Defence. He owed me 2l.
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GUILTY. Aged 30.
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Of
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Stealing, but not from the Person
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Transported for Seven Years
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First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Bayley.
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