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<join result="offenceCrimeDate" targOrder="Y" targets="t16970224-7-off31 t16970224-7-cd32"/> last. The Prosecutor declared, That he did imploy her in the House to do his Business, and she took the opportunity, and went away with the Goods; and sometime after she was taken in Hosier-Lane drinking with some Soldiers, she did confess it when she was taken; but denied it upon her Tryal, and said if she had confest any thing she could not remember it. It did not avail her, the Jury found her
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