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privately stealing a Pocket,14 Guineas, Blood-Stone value 30 s, an Eagle-Stone value 30 s. a 5 l. piece of Gold,&c. from the Person of <rs type="persName" id="t17180910-75-victim369"> <interp inst="t17180910-75-victim369" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Elizabeth Parsons <interp inst="t17180910-75-victim369" type="surname" value="Parsons"></interp>
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, the Prosecutor deposed that coming out of a Stage Coach at Hyde Park Corner, the hired the Prisoner's Coach, that about 5 a Clock he would have let her down and not have carried her any farther, pretending his Master had order'd him to come Home to go to a Burying at 7 a Clock, the insisting upon it that it not being then Six, he had time enough, and should carry her when she had a mind to go, upon which he pull'd her in order to get her out of the Coach, but she did not go, and she did believe he then pulled off her Pocket, and that he having carried her farther and let her down, she afterwards must other Pocket, and upon enquiry finding him out, he at last owned he had her Pocket, and did return it with 3 Guineas and half of the Money, but the rest of the Money, and things were gone. The Prisoner pleaded that he took up the Pocket at the Coach-door, having let down a Gentlewomen who was with the Prosecutor at the Rarl of Stafford's. The Jury <rs id="t17180910-75-verdict378" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17180910-75-verdict378" type="verdictCategory" value="notGuilty"></interp>
acquitted </rs>
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