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, a pair of sheets, value 5s. a brass candlestick, value 6d. and the furniture of a bedstead, value 4s. the property of
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; the prisoner at the bar has been a lodger of mine about a twelve-month; I let her a room at 2s. a week, without furniture, and then she came back and gave me 3s. a week far a room with furniture; I lost the things in the indictment, (repeating them), on the 23d of July last I missed them all; I had taken an inventory of them when I let her the room; I had some suspicion that they were going, and I went up several times to demand admission, but I never could gain admittance till the 23d of July; she was going into the room in the evening, and I went in with her; I missed the things, and called the watchman; she was taken to the watch-house, where she remained till the Monday morning; she had paid me three quarters out of four; I found the sheet at Mr. Jones's, pawnbroker, in Long-acre,
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which I took out of pawn myself, and a brass candlestick and part of the top valance of the bed, the corner of Broad-court, Long-acre, which I took out of pawn myself. (
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(To the Prosecutor.) Q. Do you know in what way she gets her living? - A. Her husband allows her something to live upon, and she works at her needle, but loses all her customers as soon as she gets them, by pawning the things.
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Prisoner's defence. I never cheated him nor any body else; I pawned the things with intention to return them again; I had not left the room, nor did not intend it.
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fined 1s.
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Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before The LORD CHIEF BARON.
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