... well-known gamblers, and one mas pertinaciously followed him for some distance. At length catching up to him he slipped half-a-crown in the officer's hand under pretence of seaking hands with him. Tiso rergeant immediately called four ragged little urchins ...

... murder; but If they were satisfied be had no such Intention, they might reduce the crime to manslaughter. On the part of She crown, there was no desire to conviot of the graver offence, and the prisoner was entitled to the benefit of any reasonble doubb ...