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, of <rs type="placeName" id="t17480526-1-defloc1">St. Mary Matfellon, otherwise Whitechapel</rs>
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stealing a silver watch, value 30 s. </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>Q. What parish do you live in?</p>
<p>Jones. In Whitechapel parish.</p>
<p>Q. Are you the wife of <rs type="persName" id="t17480526-1-person34"> <interp inst="t17480526-1-person34" type="role" value=""></interp>
James Jones <interp inst="t17480526-1-person34" type="surname" value="Jones"></interp>
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?</p>
<p>Jones. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know any thing of the losing of a Watch?</p>
<p>Jones. Yes; I lost my husband's watch.</p>
<p>Q. Where is your husband?</p>
<p>Jones . He is abroad.</p>
<p>Q. When did you lose it?</p>
<p>Jones. On the 19th of May.</p>
<p>Q. Who took it?</p>
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George Cock <interp inst="t17480526-1-person35" type="surname" value="Cock"></interp>
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<p>Q. How do you know that he took it?</p>
<p>Jones. I did not see him take it; but he did take it. He came with a false message from one Capt. Johnson in Soho-square, about my husband, and I went out of the room to get a little smallbeer, and then he took the watch.</p>
<p>Q. Did he give you the watch again?</p>
<p>Jones. He did not give me the watch again, but he put it down into a great chair, for I missed the watch and seized him.</p>
<p>Q. Where did you seize him?</p>
<p>Jones. I saw him in the street, and seized him, and he was brought back into the house.</p>
<p>Q. Did you see him lay the watch down?</p>
<p>Jones . I saw him take it from under his coat, and lay it down in the chair.</p>
<p>Q. You say he came with a false message from Capt. Johnson: What did you say to him?</p>
<p>Jones. I said, I did not know Capt. Johnson; and he said, nor he neither.</p>
<p>Q. Where was the watch taken from?</p>
<p>Jones. Out of the parlour; it hung up over the chimney-piece.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Did you see me take the watch?</p>
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Jones. No.</p>
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Ann Williams <interp inst="t17480526-1-person36" type="surname" value="Williams"></interp>
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. I lodge at Mrs. Jones's , and was in the room when the prisoner came in.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know any thing of his taking the watch?</p>
<p>Williams. I had a little suspicion of him, for I thought it was a very frivolous message .</p>
<p>Q. Did you see him take the watch?</p>
<p>Williams. No; but I saw the watch hang over the chimney-piece while he was there, and he went out, and presently I missed the watch, and we seized him, and brought him back.</p>
<p>Q. Did you see him lay the watch down in the great chair?</p>
<p>Williams. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. to Mrs. Jones. Are you sure the watch was not in the great chair before he came in?</p>
<p>Jones. I am sure it was not.</p>
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Thomas Shaw <interp inst="t17480526-1-person37" type="surname" value="Shaw"></interp>
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for the Prisoner.</p>
<p>Q. What are you?</p>
<p>Shaw. I am a fellowship-porter, and keep a chandler's shop.</p>
<p>Q. What do you know of the prisoner?</p>
<p>Shaw. The prisoner lived with me, and I take him to be a very honest man, for he might have robbed me, or taken my till away, and I could swear he never wronged me.</p>
<p>Q. What is he?</p>
<p>Shaw. He is a <rs id="t17480526-1-deflabel4" type="occupation">gentleman's servant</rs>
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. I have known the prisoner about three years; he lived with a lady in New Bond-street about twelve months, and was a very honest servant at that time, and I never heard any harm of him till now.</p>
<p>Q. What business is he of now?</p>
<p>Trueman. He always said he was a gentleman's servant, but he is out of place now.</p>
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, of St. Mary Whitechapel, was a second time indicted for <rs id="t17480526-1-off6" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17480526-1-off6" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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stealing a silver watch, value 3 l. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17480526-1-victim41"> <interp inst="t17480526-1-victim41" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, <rs id="t17480526-1-cd7" type="crimeDate">May the 10th</rs>
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<p>Rose Stead, Wife of <rs type="persName" id="t17480526-1-person43"> <interp inst="t17480526-1-person43" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, sworn.</p>
<p>Q. Did you lose any thing?</p>
<p>Stead. Yes, I lost my husband's watch.</p>
<p>Q. Where was it when you lost it?</p>
<p>Stead. In a room up two pair of stairs, where I lay sick.</p>
<p>Q. Do you know who took it?</p>
<p>Stead. Yes, the prisoner took it.</p>
<p>Q. How do you know that he took it?</p>
<p>Stead. He came and asked, whether there was not a sailor's wife lived there, and said he had forgot her name? The nurse that was with me, told him, yes, and that her name was Stead; he said he came from Capt. Johnson in Soho-square, who had brought a letter from the West-Indies from her husband.</p>
<p>Q. Did you lose any thing?</p>
<p>Stead. If your lordship pleases, I'll tell you. I was very ill; he said he had not the letter then , but would bring it the next day; he went out, and came back again in half an hour, and said the Capt. will not be easy till he sees you. I said I could not go, for I was so ill that I could not tell what to do; I said I would send somebody with him, and he said it was too late; but I ordered the nurse to go with him.</p>
<p>Q. What time was it?</p>
<p>Stead. About half an hour after eight at night; I got off the bed , and saw the watch hanging up; he sidled up to the chimney-piece, and put one hand up, with his handkerchief in it, to his face, to hide what he was doing, and the other he put up to the watch; he had a sort of bundle in his breast, and I was afraid he had got pistols, and that he would shoot me; then he took the watch, and said your servant madam, and run down stairs.</p>
<p>Q. Had you the watch again?</p>
<p>Stead. No, nor I never saw the prisoner till he went before the Justice.</p>
<p>Q. When was that?</p>
<p>Stead. The day that Mrs. Jones took him.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Did you see the watch in the room while I was there?</p>
<p>Stead . Yes: I went to Newgate to see him, and found him out among the prisoners, tho' he was in disguise: I asked him concerning the watch, but he would not tell me where the watch was.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Had I the same cloaths on then as I have now?</p>
<p>Stead. No; you had a duffle coat, a check'd shirt, and a colour'd handkerchief.</p>
<p>Mary Blundell (the nurse.) The prisoner came and asked for Mrs. Stead.</p>
<p>Q. What passed in the room the first time he went there?</p>
<p>Blundell . I was not there the first time, but I was the second, and my mistress looked at the watch to see what it was o'clock; the watch was there when he was there; I went along with him, and he run away from me.</p>
<p>Q. How came you to go along with him?</p>
<p>Blundell . I was to go to the Captain's, and I went all over Soho-square, and enquired of all the chairmen, and every where, and there was no such person as Capt. Johnson.</p>
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Prisoner to Mrs. Stead. Why did not you stop me if you saw me take the watch?</p>
<p>Stead. I was afraid you had pistols.</p>
<p>Prisoner. Did I threaten you?</p>
<p>Stead. No, you did not threaten me, for you run away directly .</p>
<p>Prisoner . I never was at your house.</p>
<p>Q. How came you to ask her, whether you threatned her or not, if you never was at her house ?</p>
<p>Prisoner . Because she said I had a bundle which she thought was pistols.</p>
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Guilty </rs>
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