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<p>2003.
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<p>ANN DIGGENS. I am a
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<p>Prisoner. Q. Did you not give me these things to pawn? A. Never; I have been obliged to pay for most of them.</p>
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<interp inst="t18271025-23-person150" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I am servant to Mr. Morris, a pawnbroker, of York-street, Westminster. The prosecutrix came to our shop and redeemed this property, which had been pawned by the prisoner at different times, in September, November, and December, 1826.(Property produced and sworn to.)</p>
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<persName id="t18271025-23-person151"> RICHARD CUFF
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<p>Prisoner's Defence. She gave me them to pawn; she said at the office she had only lost three shirts, and that they were worth only 2l.; she afterwards said she would do for me, and bring these things against me, as she could not find all her property.</p>
<p>ANN DIGGENS. It is false.</p>
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<p>2003.
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<p>ANN DIGGENS. I am a
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<p>Prisoner. Q. Did you not give me these things to pawn? A. Never; I have been obliged to pay for most of them.</p>
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<interp inst="t18271025-23-person150" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I am servant to Mr. Morris, a pawnbroker, of York-street, Westminster. The prosecutrix came to our shop and redeemed this property, which had been pawned by the prisoner at different times, in September, November, and December, 1826.(Property produced and sworn to.)</p>
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<p>Prisoner's Defence. She gave me them to pawn; she said at the office she had only lost three shirts, and that they were worth only 2l.; she afterwards said she would do for me, and bring these things against me, as she could not find all her property.</p>
<p>ANN DIGGENS. It is false.</p>
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