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was indicted for
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, one beaver cloth great coat, of the value of eight shillings
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, the goods of
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On Saturday, the 17th of November last, in the evening, as I was minding my business in the shop, a man came to ask the price of a waistcoat, I took it to the counter, in the shop, with two or three others, and shewed them to him. In the mean time, as I was shewing this waistcoat, I had not been gone above two or three minutes before there was a cry of somebody has stole your cloaths.
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Where is your shop? - In
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; I immediately ran out of the shop, and ran as hard as I could for about a hundred yards, I perceived a woman running, I came up with her, and she had got the coat in her hand, before I could get to lay hold of her she dropped it, and I took it up.
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Did you see her drop it? - I was close to her.
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You picked it up? - Yes.
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Is it your's, is it the same great coat? - Yes; here are the marks in the coat, where she pulled it off from the hooks.
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Is it the same coat, has it been in your possession ever since? - It has.
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Was it your great coat? - It belongs to the partnership.
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Who is your partner? -
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How do you know the coat again? - By the marks upon it, and likewise by my own writing of the shop mark.
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Was that mark upon it when she dropped it? - Yes.
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Where was it hanging before it was taken? - It hung at the shop door.
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What did she say for herself when you took her? - Nothing particular; she made a sad noise.
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I was coming up Holborn the same evening, and I saw a woman snatch a coat that was hanging at Mr. Butler's door.
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Is this the same woman? - Yes.
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Did you see her pursued and taken? - I saw her throw down the coat.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I never took the coat; I was going up Holborn to Mr. Lane's, a pawnbroker, to get a gown which I had in pawn, and I was stopped; I don't remember what they said to me, I was in a great flurry. I never took any thing in my life, nor never was accused before.
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Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.
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