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Page 48 - Middlesex sat upon the body next day, with a sapient jury, and returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown...
Page 225 - Court, in the county of Middlesex, and within the Metropolitan police district, before me, the undersigned, one of the magistrates of the police courts of the metropolis, sitting at the police court aforesaid.
Page 225 - Curious to join the name to a police court!" " in the County of and within the Metropolitan Police District. For that h the said " " Ah, it's a he this time, and yet a she is at the bottom of it. One sex is as bad as the other. There's no one of two there. We won't quarrel for the pre-eminence in vice as we do for that of virtue,
Page 215 - It is better that ten guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer.
Page 206 - ... the sea, and to the silver track on which she knew the boat was floating, and exclaimed, half aloud, in the still flower-scented night air, as she looked : — ' And sO, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part : You, as your business and desire shall prompt you — For every man hath business and desire, Such as it is — and, for my own poor part, Look you, I will go pray.