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<hi rend="italic">police-sergeant H</hi> 8.) I stopped the prisoner with this bag of coffee, in Essex-street, Whitechapel, about eleven o'clock in the morning—there was another roan with him, whom we took, but he made his escape—the prisoner said he received it of that man.</p>
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<hi rend="italic">Q.</hi> How far is it from the prose
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