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feloniously stealing on the <rs id="t17830115-8-cd58" type="crimeDate">25th of November</rs>
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last, a wooden box, value 6 d. three stuff petticoats, value 15 s. a flannel petticoat, value 12 d. a pair of green cuffs, value 6 d. seven muslin handkerchiefs, value 1 s. 6 d. one silk handkerchief, value 1 s. three silk ribbons, value 6 d. one pair of laced robins, value 6 d. one other pair of laced robins, value 3 d. and one scarlet cloak, value 1 s. 6 d. </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>On the 25th of November last I lost the things mentioned in the indictment.</p>
<p>What is the value of those things as near as you can guess? - I do not know.</p>
<p>Court. Were they worth a guinea or two guineas in the whole? - A guinea.</p>
<p>Where were those things? - In my father's house, in <rs type="placeName" id="t17830115-8-crimeloc60">Wells street, Hackney</rs>
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, the prisoner was seen go along with the box by the watchman.</p>
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ELIZABETH PELLAM <interp inst="t17830115-8-person135" type="surname" value="PELLAM"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>The prisoner brought the box to the house where I live, and broke it open, and took the property out of the box, I saw her.</p>
<p>Court. Why did not you stop her? - I had no suspicion of any such thing.</p>
<p>Did not you think it suspicious, when you saw her break open the box? - No.</p>
<p>What did you suppose she was breaking open the box for? - She said she had lost the key.</p>
<p>You did not know whose box it was? - No, far from it.</p>
<p>Did she belong to the house? - They took her in out of charity, filled her belly and gave her shelter, the box was broke open in the house where I dwell, and I burnt the lid of it to light my fire, the remainder is in court.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am watchman, the prisoner came past me, and said, her sister was just come to London, and she had got her box, and she was gone round the other way; so I went with her, knowing her to be a neighbour, I did not mistrust her.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I took the prisoner at Billinsgate; I accused her of the robbery, and she owned it to me, she said she was very sorry that she had done it.</p>
<p>Court. Did you make any promises to her to induce her to confess? - No, she confessed without, she said, she had pawned one of the petticoats for 5 s. in Kent-street; I fetched it away, it is here, I went to the lodging house, where she had broke the box open, there I took the box, and the woman shewed me to the pawnbroker's where the other petticoat was.</p>
<p>(The box and two petticoats produced and deposed to.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
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things came to, and I never was guilty of such a thing in my life.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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To be fined 1 s. </rs>
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and confined to hard labour six months in the house of correction </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.</p>
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