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stealing, on the <rs id="t17940716-66-cd325" type="crimeDate">6th of July</rs>
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, thirty-nine guineas, two half guineas, a piece of foreign gold coin, value 1l. 16s. a cotton bag, value 1d. the goods and monies of <rs type="persName" id="t17940716-66-victim660"> <interp inst="t17940716-66-victim660" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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, in the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="t17940716-66-person661"> <interp inst="t17940716-66-person661" type="role" value=""></interp>
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<p>JOHN LINSTED sworn.</p>
<p>I was robbed the 6th of July, I lost thirty-nine guineas, two half guineas, and a half jole, worth about thirty-five shillings, and a small bag the money was in. I was coming down <rs type="placeName" id="t17940716-66-crimeloc326">Holborn</rs>
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, it was on Sunday night, I met this woman and another one, and they asked me where I was going? I told them on board; they asked me if I would stay with them? I told them if they would let me go to bed I would. I had my money in my right hand waistcoat pocket; I am a seaman; I had been drinking a little, but I was not drunk; I know the person again, it was between eleven and twelve o'clock, I went to a place they call Black Boy-alley, to Mr. Clarke's house, a private house.</p>
<p>Q. Did the two women go along with you? - Yes, both women.</p>
<p>Q. Did you meet with any others by the way? - No, nobody. When I got to Mr. Clarke's, they shewed me a bed; I laid down, and both women laid down along side of me; I never pulled my clothes off, I fell asleep directly, and never waked till four o'clock in the morning, and they were both gone; I came out of doors, I did not know where to go, I had not a farthing in the world.</p>
<p>Q. When did you miss your money? - Directly as I awoke.</p>
<p>Q. When had you last felt your money, before you went with these two women? - About three quarters of an hour before that, when I stopped to buy some fruit.</p>
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Q. Where had you come from? - From Baldwin's-lane, Gray's Inn-lane, and I was going on board at Iron Gate.</p>
<p>Q. Who had you met with in the way before you met with these two women? - Nobody.</p>
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What had you been doing at Gray's Inn lane? - I was acquainted with a young man there, and I changed half a guinea, in Baldwin's-court, to buy the children some fruit; this was about three quarters of an hour before I met these women.</p>
<p>Q. What did you do after you lost your money? - There was a man at the door, and he told me it was a very bad house; how came I to go there? and he took me to a constable; and I did not find any of them that day; I staid from going on board all that day, to look for them; in about a week after the constable found the prisoner; I never saw any money again, not the six and thirty shilling piece. I am quite sure the prisoner was one of them.</p>
<p>Q. You see nothing of the other woman? - No.</p>
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Then you cannot tell whether this woman or the other took your money? - No, I cannot tell.</p>
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SAMUEL BLADEN <interp inst="t17940716-66-person664" type="surname" value="BLADEN"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was standing at the end of Black Boy-alley, and this woman and another wanted this sailor to go down this alley, it was about twelve o'clock, as nigh as I can guess; I knew both the women; I have been in search of the other ever since, but I cannot find her; I hear she has gone down to Fortsmouth; I am the patrol, I goes on there at nine o'clock; they seeing of me, they walked up the lane; he walked up the lane first, and they followed him. We took the woman last Sunday, in Eagle and Child-alley.</p>
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RICHARD WEALD <interp inst="t17940716-66-person665" type="surname" value="WEALD"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a constable. A man in sailor's clothes came to me, on Monday morning, and said, that he had been robbed by two women, of about forty guineas and half a jole; I asked him if he knew who it was? he said it was down in Black Boy-alley; says I, do you think you should know the people again? he said, he was sure he should know them both; says I, was you drunk? he said, he had been drinking a little; I asked him if he knew he had the money when he laid down with them? he said he felt it when he laid down. I searched about with him the whole day, but did not find either of them that day, but last Sunday I took the prisoner in the Eagle and Child-alley.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I never saw the man in my life before, till that gentleman came and took me out of my room, any more than any strange gentleman that is in this place.</p>
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Not GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before the Lord CHIEF BARON.</p>
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