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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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. The Prosecutor thus depos'd, The Prisoner came up to the Side of my Coach at the Time aforesaid, and after stopping my Coach, held out a Pistol, and said, I must have your Purse, I answered, How do you know I have a Purse? He said, You look as if you had; and after I delivered it; he asked my Pardon, and said, he could not help it: I bid him look upon the Men hanging in Chains. (for it was on
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, in Sight of the Gibbet) I took particular Notice of him, and do verily believe this to be the Man, and since I have seen the Mare on which he was taken. I am satisfied he was on the Back of that Mare when he stopp'd my Coach. Several other Circumstances concurring with the Depositions of the Prosecutor, the Jury found him
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