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JAMES WATTS <interp inst="t17780916-67-defend558" type="surname" value="WATTS"></interp>
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stealing three linen shirts, value 10 s. </rs>
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Elizabeth Jones <interp inst="t17780916-67-victim560" type="surname" value="Jones"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a <rs id="t17780916-67-viclabel356" type="occupation">washerwoman</rs>
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. I had this linen to wash; they were in a basket in the kitchen on Thursday; the prisoner helped me down with the basket on Saturday night; I saw one of the shirts lie uppermost upon the basket; the prisoner lodged with me, there was nobody else there but the prisoner from that time.</p>
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FREDERICK WARREN <interp inst="t17780916-67-person562" type="surname" value="WARREN"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am servant to a pawnbroker in the Minories. The prisoner pawned two shirts with me on the 27th of July, and another on the third of <rs type="persName" id="t17780916-67-person563"> <interp inst="t17780916-67-person563" type="role" value=""></interp>
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(They were produced in court and deposed to by the prosecutrix.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I asked her to lend me two shillings; she said she had no money but lent me the shirts to pawn, and went with with me and stood at the door while I went in and pawned them, and she had most of the money I pawned them for.</p>
<p>To Jones. Did you ever give this man leave to pawn the things? - No; so far from it I was very unhappy at losing them, and suspected an innocent person of taking them; I never pledged a thing in my life.</p>
<p>(The prisoner called one witness who gave him a good character.)</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.</p>
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<note>[Branding. See summary.]</note>
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