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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.
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Prisoner's Defence. I had two volumes of the Athenian Oracles, I exchanged them with the prosecutor's wife about two months before this.
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Prosecutor. My wife had been dead above two months before.
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