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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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My Lord & Gentlemen of the Jury.
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In compassion to my youth, & ignorance of knowing how to
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behave before so awfull a Court; Permit me to take this method, of
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speaking the truth in indication of myself On the day & at the time
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when the Prosecutor seized me, I was on an errand to fitch some necess-
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aries for my mother in
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George steel
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, when two boys rushed
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in a great hurry by me, which caused me to have a severe fall on my
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face, in getting up from which, the Prosecutor laid hold of my collar,
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& dragged me back to a shop, where, the Prosecutor laid hold of my collar,
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silk stockings by his own confession my Lord, he lost sight of the per-
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son he was in pursuit of; & when he Judged me to be that person, he
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found no goods about me, that could justify his suspicion, neither is there
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any one from the shop, whence the goods were supposed to be lost, that ever
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rememberd my bring there, before I was forcibly led there so that I implicitly
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& Humbly rely on your Lordships goodness & the impartiality of the Jury,
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to determine the fate of a youth, who never knew what it was to be put to ye
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bar in his life before: & who is determined to take such warning from the
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present seene, as will prevent his ever bring introduced then again.
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