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<p>118.
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<p>The pawnbroker not being able to swear to the prisoner, and the property being missed, not by the prosecutor, but by his wife, who was not present, the prisoner was
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<p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE.</p> </div1></div0>
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