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When they took Mr C to Aldgate watch-house a precursor of the police station and he told them his story, he was treated with sympathy and offered refreshment.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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But the authorities also sent a watchman to Bethnal Green, to get their account of events, which led to Davis and two more of their bull-dogs arriving at the watch-house with handcuffs to recapture Mr C.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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But the authorities also sent a watchman to Bethnal Green, to get their account of events, which led to Davis and two more of their bull-dogs arriving at the watch-house with handcuffs to recapture Mr C.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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When they took Mr C to Aldgate watch-house a precursor of the police station and he told them his story, he was treated with sympathy and offered refreshment.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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But the authorities also sent a watchman to Bethnal Green, to get their account of events, which led to Davis and two more of their bull-dogs arriving at the watch-house with handcuffs to recapture Mr C.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Ramon could rule the death an accident or a suicide and go back to the shade of the watch-house now, if he wished, and no one who mattered would ever care otherwise.
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2008
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When they took Mr C to Aldgate watch-house a precursor of the police station and he told them his story, he was treated with sympathy and offered refreshment.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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He shed a tear over his grave, got very drunk, spoke a funeral oration that night in the watch-house, and was fined five shillings for it, in the morning.
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‘It was late at night, and he found himself in the very watch-house from which he had been let out that morning.’
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He shed a tear over his grave, got very drunk, spoke a funeral oration that night in the watch-house, and was fined five shillings for it, in the morning.
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