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MARY TALBOT <interp inst="t17880227-34-defend385" type="surname" value="TALBOT"></interp>
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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t17880227-34-cd171" type="crimeDate">19th of February</rs>
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, 7 yards of printed cotton, value 17 s. the property of <rs type="persName" id="t17880227-34-victim387"> <interp inst="t17880227-34-victim387" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
Francis Faulding <interp inst="t17880227-34-victim387" type="surname" value="Faulding"></interp>
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, privily in his shop </rs>
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THOMAS FIELD <interp inst="t17880227-34-person388" type="surname" value="FIELD"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am servant to Mr. Faulding, <rs id="t17880227-34-viclabel172" type="occupation">linen-draper</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="t17880227-34-crimeloc173">King-street, Covent-garden</rs>
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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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>(The calico was produced in Court, and deposed to by Rushton and Field.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The witnesses both said, she did not appear to them to be in liquor.</p>
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GUILTY Of stealing the goods, but not privily in the shop </rs>
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Transported for seven years </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.</p>
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