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Martha Bowen , alias <rs id="t17150713-11-alias-1" type="alias"> <join result="nameAlias" targOrder="Y" targets="t17150713-11-defend73 t17150713-11-alias-1"></join>
Mary Smith</rs>
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stealing a Brass Pot, value 2 s. 2 Gold Rings, value 20 s. </rs>
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last. The Prosecutor swore, That the Prisoner had been a Lodger in the House; and being gone, the Goods were miss'd; whereupon she was suspected, taken, and confess'd the Fact. She did not deny her having the Things at her Trial, but said the Prosecutor gave them to her to raise Money; which not being believ'd, she was found <rs id="t17150713-11-verdict57" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17150713-11-verdict57" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
Guilty </rs>
of Felony.</p>
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<note>[Branding. See summary.]</note>
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