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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17860531-82-cd418" type="crimeDate">29th day of April</rs>
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last, seven linen shirts, value 40 s. eight tablecloths, value 20 s. ten napkins, value 10 s. three pair of sheets, value 20 s. twenty four dusters, value 5 s. two aprons, value 2 s. two check ditto, value 2 s. three pair of stockings, value 2 s. an handkerchief, value 6 d. a clothes-bag, value 1 d. three pair of drawers, value 1 s. and fifteen linen towels, value 2 s. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17860531-82-victim873"> <interp inst="t17860531-82-victim873" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I live in George-court, Cross-street, No. 1; I lost the things mentioned in the indictment, the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17860531-82-person877"> <interp inst="t17860531-82-person877" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, on the 29th of April; I did not pack up the things, nor make the inventory; all the things were intrusted to me; they were tied up in a table-cloth or sheet, and put into the basket; and I put the things on my knot; I carried them from <rs type="placeName" id="t17860531-82-crimeloc420">Duke-street, Manchester-square</rs>
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; I was stopped by the gentleman, Mr. Johnson; he was by himself, I saw no other person till I was at Sir Sampson's; when he stopped me, he begged me to fetch him a coach, as he could not possibly leave the door; I received sixpence of him, and went and fetched him a coach; I was not gone above twelve minutes; I pitched my things; the basket was not on the steps; I left the knot laying on the basket; when I returned, they were all gone.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I produce the things; I found them on the prisoner Jones.</p>
<p>Mr. Garrow, Prisoner's Counsel, to Hall. Your wife washes for Mr. Calvert's family? - Yes.</p>
<p>You do nothing with respect to this linen, but merely to porter it? - No.</p>
<p>Did you compare the linen with the bill? - No, I did not.</p>
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What livery was the man in? - I saw no livery.</p>
<p>How was he drest? - I have only this to say, that he is near the matter of the dress that I saw him in at Sir Sampson's.</p>
<p>What coloured coat had he on? now, I will tell you what you said there; you said,</p>
<p>"he had on a livery coat, a handsome</p>
<p>"light waistcoat, nankeen or buckskin</p>
<p>"breeches, and a tail wig." - Excuse me, that never was my report; I never did say that word, that he was in a livery, or a white waistcoat, but I said nankeen or buckskin breeches, and a tail wig.</p>
<p>What waistcoat did you say he had? do not look at the prisoner. (To the prisoner.) Button up your coat. - I said, he had a striped waistcoat, I never said, he had a white waistcoat, to my knowledge, I said, he had a Monmouth-street great coat on, of a crimson colour.</p>
<p>What coloured cape had it? - I do not know.</p>
<p>Upon your oath, you never have said? - I never did.</p>
<p>What were the breeches, buckskin or nankeen? - I cannot say.</p>
<p>How soon after you had been sent for this coach did you see the prisoner? - It was the same day, at half past two I lost the property, and I saw Johnson about five.</p>
<p>How was he dressed? - He was dressed in a different dress; he was in a very genteel brown coat, and a very genteel waistcoat.</p>
<p>Had he buckskin breeches on? - I really do not know.</p>
<p>How long was you with the man at his master's door? - I never stopped a minute.</p>
<p>Is there any one feature in that man's face, that you dare swear to? - I swear to his whole face.</p>
<p>Is there any one feature in his whole face that you know him by? - I know only this, that that gentleman, Mr. Johnson, is the man that robbed me.</p>
<p>Yes, yes, but thank God, Mr. Hall, that is not the evidence by which Juries decide? - He was a thin faced man.</p>
<p>That will not do neither; why you might swear to me by that description? - He is the man that robbed me.</p>
<p>What is there in his countenance remarkable, I ask you, brown or fair? - Every man's complection alters according to the season of the year.</p>
<p>Thank you, good Master Hall.</p>
<p>Court. What things did you see put into this bundle? - I saw shirts, sheets, a breakfast cloth, a table cloth, and ten napkins.</p>
<p>Did you count them? - No.</p>
<p>Then how can you know? - Because they are all here; I saw no other things.</p>
<p>Can you safely swear to the prisoner from the notice you took of him? - I can.</p>
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? - I did, there were a number there, the tap room was full.</p>
<p>Did you pick him out from the rest? - Yes.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>On the 29th of April, I saw the prisoner Jones carrying a basket of linen on his head, about half after two in the afternoon; I saw the three prisoners together till they got to the wild beast house in the new road, then I saw Johnson take the basket; I got a constable, and we stopt Jones and Johnson, the other was on the other side of the way, at a distance; we asked them who the linen belonged to, and Jones said, a man hired him to carry it over the water; then we asked him what water, he said, he did not know what water it was; he said, some man hired him to carry it for sixpence, he said, it was in some street in Marybone, he did not know what street; then the constable went after Lee, and brought him back; he said, he did not know any thing.</p>
<p>Did you hear any conversation between Jones and Johnson? - No.</p>
<p>Or with Lee? - No, we took the things to the publick house, and looked over them; I saw them examined; I saw some shirts, and some shifts, and some sheets not finished,<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178605310095"></xptr>
and some towels, and some dusters; Hall fixed on Johnson directly.</p>
<p>Did he hesitate at all about him? - No.</p>
<p>Mr. Garrow. How was Johnson dressed then? - He had the same coat and the same waistcoat, and leather breeches, rather greasy.</p>
<p>Had he any tail wig on? - No; I know that is him.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was the first that apprehended the prisoners, and took the things upon them.</p>
<p>Court. Are any of the family of Mr. Calverts's here? - No.</p>
<p>Court. It is not necessary to put the prisoners upon their defence.</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. ROSE.</p>
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