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, ninety feet of cedar wood, value 20 l. the property of
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COURT. You have indicted him for stealing cedar wood, and nobody knows that it was cedar wood. You might as well have indicted him for a horse.
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First Middlesex Jury, before Lord Ellenborough.
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