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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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privately stealing from the Person of
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, a Silk Handkerchief, value 3 s.
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last. It appear'd that the Prosecutor going out of
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, mist his Handkerchief, and having observ'd the prisoner to have been close by him, he apprehended him, who own'd the Fact, and return'd him his Handkerchief. In his Defence he said, he found the Handkerchief on the Church Steps.
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[Transportation. See summary.]
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