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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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with an Intent to steal his Goods
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. It appeared by the Evidence that the Prisoner, a being a
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at Lincoln-Inn did use to shave the Prosecutor, and knowing the Prosecutor, to have been gone out of Town, did get over a high Wall and was breaking in at the Window, but being heard by a Gentleman in some contigous Chambers she fired a Pistol out at the window which would ed the Prisoner in the Leg, by which wound he being rendered uncapable to make his escape was apprehended: But there not being sufficient, Proof that he had made any Entry, the Jury
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