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    1. [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Carlisle Patriot, 17 Jul 1819 - City Sessions
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    3. Saturday 17 Jul 1819 (p. 3, col. 2) CITY SESSIONS. At the Quarter Sessions for the City of Carlisle, held at the Town Hall, on Monday, before William HODGSON, Esq. Mayor, and the two senior Aldermen, Jane GILLESPIE was charged with stealing a piece of printed calico from the shop of Messrs. HESLOP and LITTLE on a Saturday morning while the shop was crowded with people. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, but the theft was very clearly proved, and the jury without a moment's hesitation found her guilty. The prisoner said she was 62 years of age, that she had come from Longtown that morning, on her way to Woolwich where one of her sons was serving in the artillery; that she was a native "of Perth, in Perthshire," and had been "five and twenty years in the army." The Mayor, after admonishing her in an impressive manner, sentenced her to three months' imprisonment only, in consequence of her advanced age.

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