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was indicted for
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returning from transportation, and being found at large before the expiration of the time for which she was transported, against the statute
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(The record of the conviction produced and read by
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, Esq. clerk of arraigns.)
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I know the prisoner, I was present when she was tried in October, 1787, for stealing goods of Mr. Jackson, and was capitally convicted; in June, 1789, she received the King's pardon, on condition of being transported for seven years; I delivered her on board the Lady Juliana; she escaped soon after from the ship in Long Reach.
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I apprehended the prisoner in Billings-court, Petticoat-lane, on the
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last; I found her in bed, in consequence of an information; she appeared
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Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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