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RICHARD JONES <interp inst="t17741019-51-defend415" type="surname" value="JONES"></interp>
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stealing a linen handkerchief, value 10 d. </rs>
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Joseph Robinson <interp inst="t17741019-51-victim417" type="surname" value="Robinson"></interp>
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, <rs id="t17741019-51-cd231" type="crimeDate">October 10th</rs>
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. On the 10th of October while I was standing among the crowd in <rs type="placeName" id="t17741019-51-crimeloc232">Guild-hall</rs>
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, I was informed by a gentleman that my pocket was picked; I felt and missed my handkerchief; a gentleman secured the prisoner; I had it in my hand about ten minutes before.</p>
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. I was in Guildhall the 10th of this month; I saw the prisoner very busy from place to place; at last I saw him take the prosecutor's handkerchief out of his pocket and thrust it into his breeches. I secured him, and made him pull the handkerchief out of his breeches.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence.</p>
<p>I am as innocent as the child unborn. I picked the handkerchief up in the Hall; I put it in my pocket; a person made a snatch at it, so I put it in my breeches.</p>
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Guilty </rs>
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T </rs>
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