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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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That your Petitioner's Son is a lad of abrupt
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manners and uncouth Address and has not
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ability to convince your House and the Court
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how sensible he is of the mormity of his Offence
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That your Petitioner visited him in the Prison
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and found him in such anguish of mind that
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he was incapable of speaking to hens your Petitioner
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is firmly persuaded the prisoner will make every
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atonement and concession that a contrite heart
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and submission spirit can do
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That the Prisoner requested and prayed your
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Petitioner to ask your House and the Court for
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his forgiveness and to declare how sensible he was
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and
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ashamed of his crime that he entreated to ask
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Pardon and by a an
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remitting attention
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and upright conduct in future endeavor to
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obliterate his past offence
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That your Petitioner has been at Edmonton
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with Mr & Mrs. Wrightson who declared they
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were every for the lad and very uneasy on
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account of his situation that they freely forgave
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