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- Apprenticed 4 April 1787 to Mr Pearson. Christened as Haselton
- 638. JOSEPH SALMON was indicted for stealing, on the 17th of August last, three pieces of check, value 10 s. the property of John Pearson .
JOHN PEARSON sworn.
I am a mathematical instrument maker . On the 17th of August, about half after ten, I was robbed: I only speak to the property.
MARY PEARSON sworn.
I am wife of the last witness. On the 17th of August I set five pieces of check in the shop window, soon after ten in the morning: I live in the city-road ; five minutes after I found the shop door open, which had been shut; and I missed three pieces: I called William Haseltine to pursue; and he brought back the prisoner and the check.
WILLIAM HASELTINE sworn.
I took the prisoner on the 17th of August, with this check. I live with the prosecutor: I was backwards; and my mistress called me in pursuit of the prisoner: I brought the check and the prisoner to my master's house.
(Deposed to by a mark at each corner, by Mrs. Pearson.)
- GILBERT sworn.
On the 17th of August I met Joseph Salmon , about thirty yards from my own house; he seemed in a great fright; and meeting Haseltine, I pursued the prisoner with Haseltine, and took him in a cellar of a new house, in Whitecross-street, with the property.
Prisoner. Did not you swear that you saw a man in a white coat take this property out of the shop, and drop it? - No.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I was coming with some cattle of my master's to Islington, and I saw this bundle lay in a hole, tied up in a spotted handkerchief, and this man saw me shewing it to another man that I knew; he came up, and said it was his property.
Court to Gilbert. Were these things in a pocket handkerchief? - No; they were buttoned up in his jacket.
GUILTY .
Fined one shilling , and imprisoned twelve months .
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GROSE.
15th September 1790
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Main & Clarke Families 
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