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<p>Did you ever get any of your things from there? - Yes, some pillow cases, and several other things.</p>
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<p>Do you know the prisoner
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<p>What did she pawn at your shop? - A waistcoat, fifteen pillow cases, a tablecloth, three napkins, seven towels, and sundry other things.</p>
<p>Were they all pledged separately by
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<p>Prosecutor. There is no mark on the linen, they are mine and nobody's else.</p>
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<p>I have frequently gone to Mr. Pritchett's
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<p>Prosecutor. This false key I found in my cellar wrapped in the tail of a woman's gown, and put under a pail, I have tried it, and it opens all the drawers of my bureau but the top, the top being the mother key it will not open that.</p>
<p>Prisoner Gee. When I was hired to Mr. Pritchett, I was informed he was a broker and auctioneer, then I found he got his living by giving false characters to servants, to get them into houses to rob their masters and mistresses, and things are brought to his house; that woman is his daughter in law, and her mother is his wife.</p>
<p>Prisoner Frizen. What Jones has sworn against me is false.</p>
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<p>I have known
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<p>I am a watch-maker's wife, I come to speak for
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<interp inst="t17850914-28-person397" type="gender" value="female"/> </persName> , I have known her almost three years, a very good character as far as I know of her, here was another gentleman with me, but he is lost in the croud.</p>
<p>Court to Jury. Gentlemen, these things to make it a capital offence, must be all taken at one time.</p>
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<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.</p> </div1></div0>
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<p>Did you ever get any of your things from there? - Yes, some pillow cases, and several other things.</p>
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<p>Do you know the prisoner
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<p>What did she pawn at your shop? - A waistcoat, fifteen pillow cases, a tablecloth, three napkins, seven towels, and sundry other things.</p>
<p>Were they all pledged separately by
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<p>Prosecutor. There is no mark on the linen, they are mine and nobody's else.</p>
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<p>I have frequently gone to Mr. Pritchett's
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<p>Prosecutor. This false key I found in my cellar wrapped in the tail of a woman's gown, and put under a pail, I have tried it, and it opens all the drawers of my bureau but the top, the top being the mother key it will not open that.</p>
<p>Prisoner Gee. When I was hired to Mr. Pritchett, I was informed he was a broker and auctioneer, then I found he got his living by giving false characters to servants, to get them into houses to rob their masters and mistresses, and things are brought to his house; that woman is his daughter in law, and her mother is his wife.</p>
<p>Prisoner Frizen. What Jones has sworn against me is false.</p>
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<p>Court to Jury. Gentlemen, these things to make it a capital offence, must be all taken at one time.</p>
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<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.</p> </div1></div0>
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