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stealing, on the <rs id="t17891209-16-cd86" type="crimeDate">4th of November</rs>
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last, fourteen yards of callico, value 16 s. </rs>
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<p>I am a <rs id="t17891209-16-viclabel87" type="occupation">linen draper</rs>
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: I lost fourteen yards of callico, on the 4th of November; I cannot tell what day of the week; I was not at home: I was sent for immediately on the prisoners being detected.</p>
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<p>The prisoners came into the shop of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="t17891209-16-person222"> <interp inst="t17891209-16-person222" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, between five and six, the 4th of November, to buy a cotton bed-gown; I shewed them some prints for it; and <rs type="persName" id="t17891209-16-person223"> <interp inst="t17891209-16-person223" type="role" value=""></interp>
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took one of the prints off the counter; I saw her; it was a piece of callico containing fourteen yards; I had shewed it to her the first piece; she laid it on one side; and I saw her take it, and put it under her apron, and go to the door; in consequence of which, she says to the other that she left in the shop, make haste and buy; she made no answer; and while I was going to the counter, she made off; I took her about an hundred yards from the door; she had the property on her; till I brought her into the shop, it was under her apron; I saw her drop it in the shop; I picked it up; I gave it to my brother; and he and me have had the care of it: he locked it up; I am sure that piece belonged to my brother; it has our shop mark: when the prisoners came in, they looked at the prints, and discoursed together; I took her into custody.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a haberdasher; I was passing along Newgate-street, and happened to stop; there was a confusion of carriages, and I stopped opposite the door; and I saw the prisoner Carlton come out of the door with some thing in her apron; and she said to Holmes, make haste and buy what you want, and come along; Carlton was at Mr. Bowerbank's door; immediately after that, she ran; and then seeing Mr. <rs type="persName" id="t17891209-16-person225"> <interp inst="t17891209-16-person225" type="role" value=""></interp>
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caught her about a hundred yards from the door, brought her back, and said she was a shoplifter, and had taken a piece of print; she said nothing; I desired him to be cautious how she dropped it, because she might take it with others; and I saw the print under her apron, and on the step of the door; it was a small pattern, yellowish ground, two or three colours; it was opened, and I particularly looked at it; the cotton was taken care of by Mr. Bowerbank; Holmes was in the shop; I saw her doing nothing.</p>
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<p>I am a constable; I took the prisoners into custody at Mr. Bowerbank's; I left the property with Mr. Bowerbank; I searched them both, and found no property about them, nor any money, except a few bad halfpence; I examined their pockets compleatly.</p>
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<p>There is a shop mark in characters, in figures; it was made by me; the figures were a V turned the wrong way, and a cross; I had such a piece when I went out; I had no property but what was my own.</p>
<p>Prisoners. We have nothing to say; we have no witnesses.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Transported for seven years </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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