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breaking and entering the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="t17730217-4-victim75"> <interp inst="t17730217-4-victim75" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
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on the <rs id="t17730217-4-cd20" type="crimeDate">12th of February</rs>
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, about the hour of four in the night, and stealing a silver pint mug, value 40 s. two silver table spoons, value 20 s. two silver tea spoons, value 2 s. two linen sheets, value 6 s. two muslin aprons, value 4 s. two linen aprons, value 4 s. one child's linen jam, value 2 s. a linen waistcoat, value 2 s. one linen shirt, value 6 s. two linen shirts, value 4 s. two pair of shift sleeves, value 2 s. one diaper table-cloth, value 2 s. one checked linen apron, one pair of linen sleeves, value 1 s. a linen handkerchief, value 1 s. 6 d. one linen apron, value 2 s. a nankeen gown, value 5 s. a cotton gown, value 3 s. a silk gown, value 5 s. a linen ironing cloth, value 1 s. five yards of printed callico, value 3 s. a sattin cloak, value 2 s. a cloth petticoat, value 3 s. an iron candlestick, value 6 d. a copper tea kettle, value 2 s. four pewter plates, value 3 s. and one pewter dish, value 2 s. the property of the said <rs type="persName" id="t17730217-4-person76"> <interp inst="t17730217-4-person76" type="role" value=""></interp>
Thomas Pateman <interp inst="t17730217-4-person76" type="surname" value="Pateman"></interp>
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in his dwelling house </rs>
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receiving a linen-handkerchief and a linen apron, parcel of the said goods well knowing them to have been stolen </rs>
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. I am a <rs id="t17730217-4-viclabel22" type="occupation">Saddle-tree Riveter</rs>
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, and live in <rs type="placeName" id="t17730217-4-crimeloc23">Long-alley Moorfields</rs>
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; my house was broke open last Saturday morning. I went to bed on Friday night about eleven o'clock, I looked at the doors and windows when I went to bed, they were all fast: my daughter Alice was up last in the house; I was waked the next morning about seven o'clock by my daughter Mary; I went down and saw the kitchen window in the yard broke open.</p>
<p>Q. Are you sure they were whole the over night?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes; the hinges were wrenched off, the shutters were on the outside; they had put up the sash; I lost the things mentioned in the indictment (repeating them); the prisoner Fosset had been my apprentice, but had run away; he had lived with me five years. I heard he lived a bad life, therefore I suspected him. We got a search warrant, and I found my goods in his apartments.</p>
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produced the goods, which were deposed to by the prosecutor and his daughter.</p>
<p>Boucher. I found these things in the prisoner's apartments; he was present at the time; Mr. Pateman was along with me; I was in a room up one pair of stairs; the woman prisoner was with him; as soon as the prosecutor saw him, he said that is the man; I took him by the collar, and immediately Chapman put his hand upon the things. The prosecutor said, O you naughty lad, you have robbed me before, and he confessed it, and said he took them at four o'clock in the morning.</p>
<p>Q. to the prosecutor. Did you threaten him or promise him favour if he would confess?</p>
<p>Prosecutor. No, he said if you will forgive me I will go to sea; I said no, he should have what the law would allow him.</p>
<p>Q. Did you tell him it should be better for him or worse for him, or any thing of that sort respecting a confession?</p>
<p>Prosecutor. No.</p>
<p>Boucher. He owned he took them between three and four in the morning.</p>
<p>Q. Who asked him as to the time?</p>
<p>Boucher. I believe his master; he said he broke open the window.</p>
<p>Q. Whose lodgings are these?</p>
<p>Boucher. The man's lodgings.</p>
<p>Q. Was the woman there at the time?</p>
<p>Boucher. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Who had the custody of the goods?</p>
<p>Boucher. They were in the lodgings; they were all in the room: I took this handkerchief from her neck; when the man came in he said it was his handkerchief. An apron was about her feet, it was not tied about her.</p>
<p>Q. What did she say?</p>
<p>Boucher. She said they were the things Fosset gave her; and she said she had them from that bundle; she said she had lived with him two years.</p>
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. I am the prosecutor's daughter; I was the first up in the morning. I rose about six o'clock.</p>
<p>Q. Was it light then?</p>
<p>Pateman. No, it was dark. When I came down I found the shutter half off; the window and door were open. I went and called my father directly.</p>
<p>Q. Are these things that have been produced your father's?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes, they are.</p>
<p>Q. Were they there before the house was broke open?</p>
<p>Pateman. I left some of them on the dresser and some in the garret.</p>
<p>Q. Are you sure some were in the garret?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes; I saw them the night before the robbery.</p>
<p>Q. Could they go into the garret without going into any other room?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Did any body lie in the garret?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes, a journeyman and an apprentice.</p>
<p>Q. In the garret where the things were?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes.</p>
<p>Q. Did they lie there that night?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes.</p>
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. I am a daughter of the prosecutor; I was up last in the house; I took notice that the windows and doors were all fast; my sister came and called me up when she called my father the next morning.</p>
<p>Q. Do you remember these goods being in your father's house?</p>
<p>Pateman. Yes, perfectly well; I saw the mug over night.</p>
<p>Q. Where was it?</p>
<p>Pateman. In the kitchen; I was to have took it up stairs but went and forgot it.</p>
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John Wilson <interp inst="t17730217-4-person81" type="surname" value="Wilson"></interp>
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. Mr. Pateman came to my house the next morning about eight o'clock, and asked me to go with him to apprehend this man; I went with him to justice Wilmot's; two of his men went with us to the prisoner's room, and<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="177302170009"></xptr>
we found the things lying about the room, under a little bedstead they had there.</p>
<p>Fossett's Defence.</p>
<p>I was going out on Saturday morning to work at Leadenhall market; I found all these things lying in the street together; I took them home to my house to see if they would be advertized; they were in two bundles.</p>
<p>Joveline's Defence.</p>
<p>When I got up in the morning I found them in the room; I do not know how they came there; I found the handkerchief on the table, and put it on my neck.</p>
<p>For Fosset.</p>
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. I have known Fosset from a child; I never heard a bad character of him before; when I heard this I was startled at it: he is 24 or 25 years old; he is a saddle-tree-maker; I thought he was a sober lad.</p>
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William Ashley <interp inst="t17730217-4-person83" type="surname" value="Ashley"></interp>
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. I have known Fosset from a child; I never knew any harm of him in my life; I thought he was an honest lad; I never heard to the contrary.</p>
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. I have known Fosset above 20 years: I lived in his father's house; he always behaved well; his father was a taylor in Houndsditch. I always looked upon him to be an honest lad; I never heard any harm of him till now: I have known him till within these two years; he went on board a king's ship.</p>
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. I am the wife of the former witness; I have known him from an infant: I never heard any harm of him in my life; he was in my house before he went to sea.</p>
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guilty </rs>
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Death </rs>
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acquitted </rs>
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