the stream of sentences which fell from the magis
trate s lips.

I was still pondering over a consumptive fence
who had pleaded inability to work and necessity for
supporting wife and children, and who had received

[{INSIDK THE THAMES POLICE COURT.}]

a year at hard labor, when a young boy of about
twenty appeared in the dock. Alfred Freeman.
I caught his name, but failed to catch the charge.
A stout and motherly-looking woman bobbed up
in the witness-box and began her testimony. Wife
of the Britannia lock-keeper, I learned she was.

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