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stealing four linen aprons, value 5 s. one linen shift, value 4 s. four handkerchiefs, value 2 s. a pair of cotton hose, and a linen towel
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Mrs. Stafford. I am wife to
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; the prisoner worked for me almost three years, I take in washing. On the 25th of August I missed a shift, on the 1st of September I lost an apron; I went to a pawnbroker's near the prisoner's house, I asked for a shift and apron pledged in her name; the pawnbroker refused producing them without the prisoner herself was there; then I went for an officer. After that we found an apron, not that which I had then missed; I went and fetched the prisoner from my house to the pawnbroker's, then the pawnbroker found four handkerchiefs; I found the stockings at the prisoner's house; she would not own to the other two aprons.
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. I live with Mr. Paine, a pawnbroker in Bow-street near Bloomsbury, (the shift, two aprons, and four handkerchiefs produced,) these I took in of the prisoner at the bar in her name at different times, (deposed to by prosecutrix.)
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Prisoner's defence.
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