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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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, about the hour of seven in the afternoon of the
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, the said Alexander and others of his family being therein, and stealing two linen sheets, value 1l. and a woollen blanket, value 7s.
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the property of the said Alexander.
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The prosecutor not being able to swear to the property, the prisoner was
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Tried by the first London Jury, before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.
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