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Mr. Atkinson, the junior advocate for the prosecution, opened the Indictment; - And then Mr. Ledlie the senior Counsel stated the case.
The conduct (sd he) of the prisoner has on this occasion exceeded all the acts of [ILL] Villainy that I have heard of. He went to the son of the Prosec: and told him that he was a stranger and had a little money [which] he knew not how to employ, and prevailed upon him to take