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Talks About the Laws We Live Under, Or, at Langley Night School
Talks About the Laws We Live Under Or at Langley Night School Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: W. Smith Subjects: History / General Law / General Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR re... more »print of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. JUSTICES OP THE PEACE. George. -- If I had been there ! Albert. -- Where was the policeman, says 11 George. -- Mrs. Brown says it is no tramp. John. -- I was sure that chap was up to no good. Albert. -- She's gone to swear an information against him. Mr. L. -- What's all this commotion about ? Albert. -- It's a rascally chap, sir, who has been and stolen my watch that my grandmother is keeping for me -- the one that her old master left her, and I am to have when I get a place. He took it up from off her very chimney-piece when she was just gone out to buy a bit of bacon! Policeman, he says he thinks he saw a suspicious-looking chap go up our way -- one of those navvy fellows that have been at the new bridge of late -- and he came down just now to fetch Granny to swear her information before the Squire. Mr. L. -- 0 then ! you do see some use in policemen, Albert. John. -- That's just what I was telling him, sir. His Granny would not have much chance of seeing herwatch again without the police, whose business it is to look up the bad lot. Mr. L. -- I hope she may see it again; but thieves are so apt to melt up silver that plate is seldom recovered, unless the pursuit is very rapid. I suppose the policeman is to search the man's lodging if he has one. Edward. -- Can he do that without a warrant from a magistrate, sir? Mr. L. -- No! no constable can enter a ...« less