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Reading about Victorian dog thieves in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor - apparently one could make quite a good living by stealing dogs, advertising them as "found" and demanding "expenses" from the owner for restitution, because dogs weren't legally property until quite late in the 19th century
"One very common procedure, if the policeman has seized a barrow, is to whip off a wheel, while the officers have gone for assistance; for a large and loaded barrow requires two men to convey it to the green-yard."
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