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[The words underlined being upon my subsequent protest, I that the or attempt any to commit extortion, other misdemeanor, directly or indirectly, is itself a misdemeanor" and that if they thought the defered ant guilty, they would punish him. His Lordship here paused, then, changing his tone, resumed as follows: - You will find him not guilty, if you think that all that he did was to make a suggestion to the prisoners that they ought to pay the bill of the Cookshop. In a few minutes the jury returned a Verdict of "Not Guilty". Before I left the court, two of them informed me that they had found the Verdict entirely upon that last Statement of the judge as to the "suggestion", - conceiving he meant to say that in that case, it would be quite immaterial whether the defendant was or was not himself liable to pay the bill to which his "suggestion" had reference. - I beg to add that this information was entirely voluntary on their part, and that I had not sought any conversation on the subject of the trial with either of them.
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