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was indicted for
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, eleven napkins, value 20s., and one table-cloth, value 10s.
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; the things were on the window-cill of my room - I left the room at one o'clock, and went into the kitchen; a man came and asked if I had lost any thing? I went and found my window lifted up and my things gone. He must have gone down the area steps to take them.
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(Property produced and sworn to.)
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Prisoner's Defence. A man gave them to me at the top of the steps.
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Transported for Seven Years
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Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
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