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<interp inst="t18300114-88-person652" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . The prisoner comes to my house with linen from the mangle; I lost a tea-spoon on the 26th of December - it had been used the night before, and I was informed that the prisoner came to my house that morning- she had left a basket of mangling; I gave notice to the pawnbrokers.</p>
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<persName id="t18300114-88-person653"> JOSEPH HALL
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<interp inst="t18300114-88-person653" type="gender" value="male"/> </persName> . I am shopman to a pawnbroker. The prisoner brought this spoon to pawn with me, on the 26th of December. about eleven o'clock in the morning - I stopped her from the information I had received.(Property produced and sworn to.)</p>
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