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stealing three books, each entitled, Letters of Cicero, val. 4 s. </rs>
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. I am a <rs id="t17500711-1-viclabel3" type="occupation">bookseller</rs>
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, these books were stolen out of my shop, I missed them within a quarter of an hour after they were gone. I know them to be mine by my private mark in them.</p>
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. I am brother to the prosecutor, I live within two doors of him. I bought these books of the prisoner at the bar; the day after I bought them my brother told me he had lost them. He came to my door again after this, I let my brother know of him, so we took him up and carried him before Alderman Benn, before whom he owned the fact.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence. I had two volumes of the Athenian Oracles, I exchanged them with the prosecutor's wife about two months before this.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. My wife had been dead above two months before.</p>
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Guilty </rs>
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<note>[Transportation. See summary.]</note>
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