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was indicted for
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stealing three linnen shirts, value 3 s. and a linnen gown, value 2 s.
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the property of
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I live in
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with me. On the 24th of November I sent her on an errand; she did not return again; then I missed the things mentioned in the indictment. I saw her at Woolwich on the 28th; I brought her to London; she confessed taking the things. I found them at Mr. Wallis's the pawnbroker by her direction.
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produced the things which he deposed he received of the prisoner, and the prosecutrix deposed that they were her property.]
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Prisoner's Defence.
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He said, if I would confess where the things were, he would not hurt an hair of my head.
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Prosecutrix. I did not say any such thing.
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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[Whipping. See summary.]
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