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Rebecca Butler , alias <rs id="t17210301-18-alias-4" type="alias"> <join result="nameAlias" targOrder="Y" targets="t17210301-18-defend121 t17210301-18-alias-4"></join>
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, of <rs type="placeName" id="t17210301-18-crimeloc89">St. Giles without Cripplegate</rs>
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privately stealing a Wooden Snuff Box value 6 d. 2 Gold Rings value 14 s. and 12 s. 6 d. in Money from the Person of <rs type="persName" id="t17210301-18-victim123"> <interp inst="t17210301-18-victim123" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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last. The Prosecutor deposed that the Prisoner pickt him up, run him into the <rs type="placeName" id="t17210301-18-crimeloc92">White-House Inn without Cripplegate</rs>
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, and while he was asleep pickt his Money and Snuff-Box out of his Pocket, but her pulling off the last Ring from his Finger waked him, and he secured her; that she gave the Snuff-Box to the Watchman to let her go; that she dropt 6 s. 6 d. 1/2. which the Watchman pickt up, and pawned one of the Rings at the Compter for 5 s. that she told him if he would not prosecute her she would give him his Rings again. The Constable <xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="172103010004"></xptr>
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deposed, that he received the Snuff-Box (which was produced in Court, and swore to by the Prosecutor) from the Prisoner. The Jury found her <rs id="t17210301-18-verdict93" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17210301-18-verdict93" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
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