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<p>565.
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<p>I gave a gown to
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<p>I had a gown to alter. I left the prisoner in care of the room. Nobody else was in the room. When I came home, she was gone, and the gown was gone. She was taken up on Saturday, and owned she had pawned it.</p>
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<p>I am a pawnbroker. This gown was pawned at our house, on the 15th of
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<interp inst="t17810912-76-person739" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> I can't swear that the prisoner pawned it.</p>
<p>(It was produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutrix.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
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<interp inst="t17810912-76-person740" type="gender" value="female"/> </persName> has been an acquaintance of mine many years. She asked me to go with her to the Borough, to see her aunt. I had not clothes fit to go in. She asked the prosecutrix to lend me this gown, which she did. I pawned my own gown. We were out together till all the money was spent, and she told me to pawn this gown; and then we had some words, and she has done this out of spite.</p>
<p>Barber. I lent her this gown on Monday, to go to my aunt's. She brought it back. I left it in my room, and she pawned it.</p>
<p>(The prisoner called
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<p>Tried by the First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.</p> </div1></div0>
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