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was indicted for
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feloniously stealing, on the
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, 7 yards of printed cotton, value 17 s. the property of
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, privily in his shop
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I am servant to Mr. Faulding,
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King-street, Covent-garden
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; on Tuesday the 19th of February, between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner came into the shop, and asked for a quarter of a yard of Irish linen, at 14 d. a yard; I cut her off a quarter of a yard, and she gave me twopence-halfpenny, and went out of the shop.
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I am shopman to Mr. Faulding; I had been out; I came in while the prisoner was in the shop; she had a piece of calico in her hand, and was putting it under her arm, between her and her child; she had a child in her arms; she went out, I went after her and took her.
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(The calico was produced in Court, and deposed to by Rushton and Field.)
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I went into the shop to buy a bit of linen; I was very much in liquor; what I bought, or what I brought out of the shop, I do not know.
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The witnesses both said, she did not appear to them to be in liquor.
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Transported for seven years
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.
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