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LOCAL NEWS.

THURSDAY

A Serious Charge.

Jacob A. Morrow, who for a year or more past, has been captain of the engine house at F, near Twelfth streets, known as No. 3, was arrested last night on the charge of arson . Morrow's residence adjoins the engine house, and on Wednesday of last week the house was partially destroyed by fire. Chief New bury made an investigation at the time as to the cause of the fire, which started in the parlor downstairs, behind the piano, a room in which there had been no fire. He did not accept Morrow's explanation as satisfactory, and certain matters which cropped out made it necessary to suspend morrow. The evidence obtained was sufficient to cause the swearing out of a warrant in Judge Houston's court, and the arrest followed.

Morrow when seen this morning, [?] denied his guilt, and said that the whole matter was simply spite work on the part of some one, whom he did not specifically name. He stated further that when the thing was over with he would make it very warm for the parties who are back of it. He has been in the department almost since its inception, and has been generally regarded as a good man.

The prosecution claims to have a strong case of circumstantial evidence against him. Traces of kerosene were discovered, they say, near the piano where the fire originated, and also in a closet upstairs where there was something of a blaze. It is also said that the alarm could not be given to the other houses for ten minutes because some one had been monkeying with the telephone, grounding one of the wires. They also claim that a cinder was found in each nozzle of the chemical, and that the nozzles of the hose were clogged in some manner so that the water simply sprayed out. This was the condition of the apparatus in the F street house.

Morrow was released this morning on bail, Theodore Kaar going his security in the sum of $1,000 for his appearance for trial June 1, next Monday.

The arrest created considerable surprise, as Morrow was well known in the city. No one seems able to give any reasonable or certain motive for the crime. Some say that his household goods were heavily mortgaged, and others that he had a large insurance on them. Morrow denies knowing about the fixed apparatus.

From Police Headquarters.

Harry E. Reed, who has for some time been employed as clerk in the butchers shop of Peart & Berryman, 1218 O street occupies a cell in the city jail, and the register opposite his name bears as the charge, "grand larceny." The complainant is F. L. Berryman, one of his employers, who charges that Reed stole $75 or $80 from his pants pocket on Saturday night last. Reed has been occupying sleeping apartments above the store with Berryman and others, and Berry man took the day's receipts Saturday night, and placed them in his pants when he retired. In the morning the jeans were displayed on the floor of the hallway, and the riches contained there once had take wings.

Reed had not been in bed at all that night, and was asked Sunday as to his whereabouts. He stated that he had been at Cushman Park until 2 o'clock in the morning, but having lost his key was unable to get into the room, although he kicked on the door. As there was a man sleeping within a few feet of the door, the story was not believed, and a close watch was kept on him. He has been spending a great deal of money since then, although his salary has only been then, although his salary has only been $15 a month and board. His actions were regarded as curious, and enough was obtained to justify Berryman in causing his arrest. Reed is only 18 years old. He has a brother employed in the city, but his parents live at Bennet.

SAFE BURGLARS.

They Crack Two Safes in the City Some Time Last Night.

The festive burglar got in his work on the safe of the Consolidated Tank Line company, on North Fourteenth street, last night. Entrance to the office was secured by prying open the front door. The safe was drilled and blown open and the contents overhauled. They secured no cash, but made away with two or three city warrants amounting to about $8,400, also three checks which had been signed but not filled out. Mr. Johnston the agent notified the bank this morning not to cash the checks which were stolen, and by a notice in today's paper warns all others from chasing them. This is the second time within one year that the Tank Line company's safe has been blown open.

The safe in the store of Sherod & Chandler, at Sixth and N streets, was also broken into last night. The business of the firm is commission, and the building was easily entered, The outside door of the safe was unlocked, but the cash box was fastened. This was easily wrenched loose by means of a chisel and plenty of elbow grease. The box was then taken up onto the hill in the rear of Lowrey's elevator and broken open. They secured the cash, $4.40, and left the box lying on the ground.

Yesterday Afternoon.

Col. Philpott, undaunted by the fact that one jury-man had succumbed under his forceful eloquence, grabbed hold again yesterday afternoon, and he made a most telling speech. He reviewed the evidence supporting the theory that it was a white man who done Sheedy to the death, declaring that there was more evidence to prove that rival gamblers were the guilty ones and not Poor Monday McFarland. This was the theme the attorney based as his principal argument, and upon all the strings thereof he harped with all the skill of the artist. It was an excellent argument, the best that would be made under the circumstance.

Mr. J. B. Strode, leading counsel for Mrs. Sheedy, opened his argument by declaring that the only reason the prosecution had for arraigning Mrs. Sheedy was [?] they were after the money that was in it. If John Sheedy had died a poor man, he insisted that there would not have been any prosecution. He commenced his talk in a gentle, sympathetic voice and said that he had watched the curl of scorn upon their faces as the prosecution proceeded. In the press, he declared that there had been some of the "most damning lise that could be concocted by newspaper reporters." He then said he would refer only to Snell, because Snell opened the argument and the other attorney had merely reiterated that the first violator of the law whom he knew of when he came to this city was John Sheedy. John Sheedy was a gambler.

"There has been many a home," said he, "in which the actions of John Sheedy has caused ruin and sorrow because of the business in which he was engaged."

The speaker then referred to the fact often seen Monday McFarland standing on the corner of Thirteenth and P before the assault, was an enemy, and to Monday McFarland.

"The prosecution," he continued, "speaks of a number of witnesses whom they say we didn't put upon the witness stand. Dennis Sheedy, sr., left on the pretext of some telegram of 'important business,' 'family sick,' or some such invention. Dennis Sheedy, jr., the young man who was at the Sheedy residence almost constantly for two years, and who was at the Sheedy home all the night following the assault, has not been spirited away."

Mr. Strode then commenced to tell about a trip that young Dennis Sheedy had taken to Wilbut. Mr. Lambertson objected and the objection was sustained. This angered strode and he declared bitterly that Lmabertson and his counsel had received money collected from the gamblers to give to Mrs. Sheedy. "It does not do for Lambertson and Hall to talk about charity," said he. This made Lambertson's eyes flash fire for the first time, and he retorted:

"And it does not do for this gentleman who got this money from the gamblers to talk in such a manner."

Strode got pale and angrily replied: "Did Annie Bodenstein, the domestic, testify as you wish?"

"Of course she didn't," lambertson thundered," you bribed her to keep her mouth shit!"

Peals of laughter followed and the court called the crowd to order. The judge then said Gentlemen, we will have a straight argument of this out of the evidence. If you depart from it again I will have to fine you."

He intimated that all of the property that all of the property that John Sheedy possessed at the time of his death had been acquired since his marriage, and the, turning to Lambertson, demanded if that was not true why the prosecution had not proven that was not.

"We didn't need to," replied Lambertson, "we had Monday McFarland's confession to that effect."

"O! Monday McFarland's confession. DOn't you know that it is not to go in so evidence as far as it concerns Mrs. Sheedy? And yet you have tried to use it as evidence."

Mr. Strode then proceeded to tell how Mr. Sheedy had at one time corrupted the city council with money.

He said the only evidence against Mrs. Sheedy was the confession of McFarland, and this, he declared, could not go in as evidence. He then affirmed that the prosecution had spoken of clandestine meetings, but there were no meetings testified to except the two at the Carpenter residence. That criminal intimacy with Walstrom had been asserted but not proven. He next dwelt at some length on arguments proving that the confession had been extorted from McFarland. He read questions from the confession to prove this. He then exclaimed.

"Who had scared Monday McFarland? Who had made him believe that there was a mob coming? Who extorted the confession? Jim Malone! If what the mayor, the marshal and other witnesses present at the confession say are true, how can you use the confession in evidence? We asked Kinney if he did not say to Monday on that Sunday that if he told who the other parties were who were connected with him in the crime it would connected with him in the crime it would go easier with him? He answered, 'no.' Why didn't they put Jim Malone on the witness stand again so that we could cross examine him about this matter?"

"Why, Mr. Strode," interrupted Mr. Lambertson, "we did put Malone on the witness stand again, and you not bully had a chance to cross-examining him, but you did so."

"I believe you are right," said Strode, and the proceeded:

"Now, gentlemen of the jury, before we can consider the second confession, we must have positive proof that the influences used to secure the first one had been removed."

Mr. Strode declared that the questions asked Monday were evidence that hte negro still feared the mob at that time and was trying to shield himself. He dwelt on the fact that every time a confession was made Jim Malone was present. He impressed upon the minds of the jurors the fact that if there is a doubt whether or not Monday McFarland was sworn at the time of the coroner's inquest that the confession should not be considered in evidence. Said he: "Take the confessions out of the case and nothing is left to prove that Monday McFarland murdered John Sheedy except the cane, and that has been poorly identified."

This Morning.

The increasing public interest in the Sheedy case culminated this morning when it was known that Counsel Strode for the defense would close for the defense and that the event of the great trial, the concluding address by Col. Lambertson, for the prosecution would be commenced. The remarkably, pungent, forcible and brilliant argument of Frank Hall and the fiery, impassioned and logical pleadings of counself Strode had vastly aroused popular interest, which known that the gifted ex-United States Attorney and widely famed orator, Lambertson was to speak.

Anticipating that the attendance would be out of all proportion to the seating and standing capacity of court room, and desirous of being on hand in time to gain admittance, hundreds, a very large proportion of them ladies, hurried to the court house before 8 o'clock, and securing seats patiently waited for the hour to roll round. At 8:30 every chair, outside and inside the room, was occupied, while great crowds, eager for [?] surged about the doors, eagerly clamoring for admission, much to the discomfiture of fenial Lou Franklin, the courteous doorkeeper stationed at the entrance leading into the court room from the clerk's office, which was at the time thronged with fully on hundred ladies, all pleading to get in. Lous finally took refuge inside the court room and locked the door while he sent for someone to come and help him. Sheriff McClay came to his relief, and finally admitted the female contingent.

At this time the auditorium was jammed to suffocation, while hundreds remained standing inside and outside the railing. It was a splendid audience, such an one, in fact as would inspire the speakers to their best efforts. Whin Mr. Strode arose to conclude his appeal he looked upon a sea of upturned, eager, anxious and expectant faces. he was booked to speak forty minutes, but after becoming warmed to his subject and conscious of the rare opportunity offered to address an audience of rare refinement and high intelligence, he became oblivious of time and talked two hours and ten minutes before reaching the close. His effort was not confined to any particular line, but covered almost every point brought out by the evidence. The he reviewed at great length, and for the last house of his address he appealed to prejudice, sympathy, avarice and in fact sought to strike every chord going in making up the human mind. He drew a pathetic picture of Mary SHeedy as a child, when, as a flaxen haired, innocent face, pure minded girl, she attended school in Illinois, of which school the speaker was the teacher. He then followed her career down to the present, discreetly passing over in silence any reference to her subsequent career after reaching Nebraska until her marriage with John Sheedy. The turning toward he and assuming a terful mien, redolent with pathos and the deepest sympathy, he drew a word picture of her "bereaved, heart broke and sorrowing condition." "Her white haired mother, borne down with the weight of years and consuming anxiety now awaits in a distant state on abed of sickness and pain, the white winged messenger of love that shall bear to her troubled mind news that her youngest child, the flower of the family and the idol of her mother's heart, has been acquitted of this fearful charge for which she is being tried."

At the affecting climax Mrs. Sheedy, her three sisters and not a few ladies in the room lost their self control and yielding so unbidden tears, wepr. Conscious that he was to be followed by Col. Lambertson in an argument whose iron logic and polished rhetoric he feared, Strode adopted the role of a diplomat, [?] paid Messrs. Hall, Lambertson and Snell a splendid tribute for the genius, ability and signal vigor with which they had conducted the prosecution. His apparent object was to praise in hope that it might induce Lambertson to dull the edge of his glittering blade when the defense had done.

"They rank among the most eminent legal talents in Nebraska," exclaimed Mr. Strode, "and when I contemplate the tremendous force of the odds against which we are pitted in the legal arena, and consider their influence upon this jury it is then I tremble for my client, In closing Mr. Strode made a mighty appeal to the jurors to steel themselves against the insinuating sophistry, the apparent logic and splendid bursts of captivating oratory destined to soon surge and beat around them.

Having called for the articles introduced in evidence they were brought in and placed upon the table. The articles were the cane, the gold ring, a box of hair and the skull. Taking up the ring alleged by McFarland in his confession to have been placed upon his finger by Mrs. Sheedy, Strode paraded it before the jurty and was proceeding to deny that any evidence had been adduced to show that it had ever belonged to Mrs. Sheedy, when in a mechanical way he essayed to slip it one his little finger. That it would not go on escaped his attention for a moment, but when it finally claimed his notice, a startled expression matled his face, and breaking away from the jury, he bounded toward McFarland, with the excited exclamation:

"Monday McFarland, place that ring upon your finger. It will not go on mine and I think my hands and fingers are smaller than yours."

"Not now,' interrupted Lambertson, "The evidence is closed and you'll not be permitted to let McFarland try on that ring now."

Visibly impressed with a mild conviction that he had overlooked a very essential phase of the case until too late to remedy it, Strode became desperately excited. Having found what he believed to be a peg of fact, he proceeded to hang the mantle of imagination on it, and striding rapidly back to where the box containing a lock of Mrs. Sheedy's hair was, he seized the auburn capillaries and ran over to where Mrs. Sheedy was sitting and placed the lock in comparison with her hair. He claimed there was a marked difference in color and texture, and excitedly asked permission of the court to lead him over to the jurors for the purpose of allowing them to make a comparison.

"I now believe" said Strode dancing around in the throes of well simulated amazement and indignation, "that we have been made the victims of perjured and manufactured testimony. I scent a damnable conspiracy, I ask the court to allow the comparison."

"All right," said Lambertson; "but if you do it will have the effect of placing Marry Sheedy upon the stand and we will certainly insist upon cross-examining her. Place her there if you dare." The court ruled that Strode's demand was in the nature of testimony and ruled against the proposition. Foiled at every point and rendered almost desperate by the fatal oversight in the defense in failing to examine these articles at the proper time, Strode launched out in an avalanche of abuse directed against the prosecution, alleging that it had countenanced if not been guilty of manufacturing perjured testimony against his client. Lambertson denounced this as an infamous falsehood, unbecoming an honorable attorney, such as Strode claimed to be. The court interposed and harmony was again restored, after which Strode closed and Col. Lambertson opened as follows:

Col. Lambertson's Argument.

Murder is the most awful deed that man can commit. So foul and unnatural is it, that it smells to heaven. This is true when done in heat, but the horror is more profound when the victim is struck down, [?] and [relentlessly?] in cold [?].

On the second Sunday in January last, as the twilight was deepening into night, John Sheedy, in the peace of God, on his own threshold, in the heart of this populous city, within call of a score of men, was struck a death dealing blow by an assassin that lurked within the shadows of his own porch. The Sabbath bells that called the worshippers to the house of God, to hear the glad tidings of great joy, rang John Sheedy's death [knell?], and summoned him, without warning, to the great beyond, and his unchrived soul to meet its God. The malignity of the crime was only equalled by its audacity. That such a crime could have been committed at such an hour, in such a place within a stone's throw of two officers of the law, and the offender escape unseen, demonstrates the insecurity of human life where hunted to death by a desperate and determined man. It teaches us that even in this law abiding community there are men who hold human life only a little dearer than that of the brute.

So bold and sudden was the deed, no atrocious and diabolical execution that not only was this city thrilled with horror, but the entire state startled and shocked. As we recall that stalwart figure, a perfect typo of physical manhood, the impersonation of manly strength, it seems inconceivable that he now sleeps with his fathers, cut down like a weed that cumbers the ground, or felled as an ox in the slaughter pen.

No event has ever taken such hold on the public mind awakened such profound interest, excited so much discussion or plowed itself so deeply into the life of our people as this offense, unparalleled in the criminal annals of our state. If the crime itself was a sensation, the discovery was a thunder clap. Suspicion was abroad with an hundred eyes; lyax eyed officers were alert; clews were followed; but every circymstance, every fact, every clew, every trace, pointed as unerringly as the finger of fate, to this dark skinned man and his white faced woman; to this negro whom he had befriended; to this woman whom he had taken to his bosom, as the authors of the deep damnation of his taking off.

The magnitude of the crime is the measure of your duty. As the crime is unparalleled, so the duty is paramount. As the representative of the people, I can only ask that you consider the case to the end with the same patience and fidelity that you have bestowed during these weeks we have been together. When you have found the truth, have the courage, under your oath, registered here and in heaven, to write it in the verdict, and a true deliverance made between the people and the defendants, and we will be content.

THE VICTIM.

The victim was an old and well known citizen, a leader in the circles in which he moved. He had amassed a fortune of $75,000. The defendant, Mary Sheedy, Was married to him some eight years ago. His life had been an eventful one, for he had come to the west at any early day, when lawlessness was the rule, as it is now the exception. The mark of violence on his body tells the story of the vicissitudes of his checkered life. His career is not to be commended, but there was nothing little, despicable, or ignoble about him. His faults and vice were on the surface, to be read as an open book. John Sheedy was a brave man, with the courage of his convictions, and his word was as good as his bond. He was loyal to his friends, generous to the poor, and gave with an open hand to all charitable and public enterprises. If Elder Howe could but speak, he would doubtless relate many a silent act of charity of John Sheedy that would soften and smooth out some the hard lines in hsi character. We say this, not by way of apology, but because it is the simple truth. We leave to the counsel for the defense the task of traducing his memory. It requires but little courage to assail the dead, it would not have been safe to do it while he was living.

In answer to all accusations against John Sheedy, we say that he was good enough for Mary Sheedy; that he was not so bad but that she was glad to take him for her third husband, even though she had to rid herself of her second husband for that purpose.

ASSOCIATE COUNSEL.

Before passing to a discussion of the evidence, I deem it proper to say a word concerning my appearance in the case. While I have on several occasions apperred as counsel for defendants charged with murder, it has never been my lot to appear for the prosecution where the death penalty attaches.

As my employment, with Mr. Hall, has been criticised by counsel for the defense, I may be pardoned in saying that we see no impropriety whatever in lending our assistance to the ascertainment of the truth.

It certainly is not less honorable to appear for the state than for the accused there are times when the interest of the people should be as carefully looked after as those of the individual citizen.

I certainly have no regard for the maudlin sentiment that some attorneys boast of, that they would never appear for the prosecution in a case affecting life. If a man or woman deliberately takes life, I have no hesitation in lending my assistance to the vindication of the law, even thought he penalty be death. I consider it a public duty not refuse my aid in such case, when asked.

If precedent is sought, I can point to the great argument of Daniel Webster made against Joseph J. Knapp, charged with the murder Joseph White, which will remain a classic while the English language endures.

In view of the fact that there were six experienced lawyers for the defense, all of whom have been prosecuting attorneys at one time or another, Mr. Snell would have been censured if he had not consented to the employed of additional counsel in a case of such magnitude and importance.

THE ATTITUDE OF THE DEFENSE.

It is a significant fact that the defendants stand together in their defense. Although the white woman ignores the black man - never speaks to him in the court-room, yet their defense is one.

The negro is not here to say the woman did it, and the woman is not here to say the man did it, but both are here to defy for themselves, and each other, any complicity with the crime. They are both innocent. If, then, the theory of the defense is to prevall, you must exclude both these defendants from participation in the crime. You must find the murderers to be other than Mary Sheedy and Monday McFarland.

Mary Sheedy is not here to claim that Monday McFarland killed Sheedy, but the gamblers got him to do it; she dare not say that, for McFarland holds her fate in his hand and would be on his feet in an instant to utter the one word that would fix her guilt past redemption. So, then, gentlemen of the jury, if we adopt the theory of the dense, you must go outside of the courtroom to find the murderer.

Court adjourned for noon.

This Afternoon.

If the court room was packed in the morning, it was thronged to suffocation at 2 o'clock. Not unless than three hundred ladies were usable to find seats and accepting the uncomfortable situation, remained standing in the aisles for hours, while other hundred surged around the various entrances, taking their chances of hearing the great argument in progress inside, being absolutely barred from haining entrance. The ladies were the most persistent, and did not hesitate to invade the raised dias upon which sat the visible majesty of the law. They appropriated the steps leading to the judicial throne, and calmly camped there.

When court had been called to order Judge Field stated that much inconvenience would be encountered by the audience, but the useless good order was maintained he would clear the room.

At 2:05 Col. Lambertson arose to resume his address. A great hush came over the vast audience, and all was stilled as he opened impressively and took up the uncompleted discussion of his theme.

Col. Lambertson exhaustively discussed circumstantial evidence, and in an invisible argument shows that in the vast majority of case where applied, circumstantial evidence is the strongest, because unbiased and silently unprejudiced. What is circumstantial evidence?

If you awaken in the morning and hear water rippling down the street, and see dampness upon the leaves, you know it has rained, though may not have heard the patter of the drops nore seen the rain. Again, upon going out in the winter you see ice formed and the ground frozen. You did not feel the chilly atmosphere during you sleeping hours, but you know it has been cold, though you have not seen the cold. In passing down street at noon I saw a large pile of brick, lumber, mortar and iron; I did not see the building but I know one will near its handsome front in that locality soon; I did not see the building but I know it will be erected. If you see a man cautiously stealing from a lady's room at night under suspicious conditions, you do not absolutely know that anything criminal has transpired, but the very natural inference is that a criminal intimacy has existed.

They hold up that case from Vermont, where a man was convicted and hanged upon circumstantial evidence, when it was afterwards shown that the man was innocent. That is a single case in the entire judicial history of the state of Vermont, in fact it is the only instance of the fallacy of circumstantial evidence as applied in capital crime since the foundation of government, and the case has been made to do service in every case in which circumstantial evidence figured. It has done service in hundreds of cases.

As the News goes to press Col. Lambertson is still talking and will close at 4:30 it is expected. The jury will then be conducted to its usual quarters and held until tomorrow morning when Judge Field will give his instructions and confide the case to the final arbiters, the jurors.

FRIDAY

Hutchison Must go to Jail.

E. W. Hutchison had his preliminary examination before Judge Houston this morning one the charge of murdering Mrs. Cella J. Green on the 28th of last month. County Attorney Snell and Hon. L.W. Billingsley appeared for the state, and Judge Reese and J. R. Gilkerson for the defense. But one witness was put on the stand, Miss Lou's Rice, who detailed the story of the shooting to which she was a witness as has already been given in these columns. Judge Houston decided therefore to hold Hutchison without bail, Judge Reese reserving the right to apply for bail hereafter. Hutchison preserved a quiet demeanor, and seemed very rational.

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NEITHER GUILTY

The Jury Acquits Monday McFarland

AND MRS. MARY SHEEDY

After Struggling for Twenty Hours for a verdict, the Jury Finds that Neither of the Accused is Guilty as Charged - McFarland Greets the News with Great Joy.

Verdict of the Jury.

At 3:15 the jury called the bailiff having it in charge, and announced that it was ready to report, having reached a verdict. Judge Field was sent for as also the attorneys for the defense and prosecution.

Mrs. Sheedy, accompanied by her three sisters, her uncle and Counsel Strode and Stearns, entered the court and took seats. Mrs. Sheedy manifested no outward signs of excitement other than a faint flush that mantled her attractiveness. Her calm demeanor, it was easy to detect, was maintained only by the supremest effort of that superb nerve that has been her constant companion throughout the entire trial. However, it was easy to see that the outward composure was forced and not real. As the jury filed in and took seats she scanned their faces with a look of painful inquiry and at last, almost gave way and cast her eyes down. Counsel Stearns, who occupied a seat at the table, had a premonition of what was coming and obviously catching a sign of favorable recognition from one of the jurors, broke into a beautiful smile that frisked and gambled over his corrugated features. He turned to Mrs. Sheedy, who took the tip and look up with hope beaming in every feature.

The judge asked if a verdict had been reached and received an affirmative reply called for it. The papers were handed the bailiff and by him transferred to the court. Judge Field received and handed the verdict to Clerk Sizer, who proceeded to read:

We, the jury, in the case against Mary Sheedy and Monday McFarland, find the defendant's not guilty.

At this Sol. Carder and a half dozen others in the courtroom burst into cheers.

Monday McFarland leaped from his seat fully five feet in the air and clapped his hands in an ecstasy of joy, while Mrs. Sheedy burst into tears and was clasped in the arms of her sisters, who almost smothered her with caresses. For the first time since the trial began Mrs. Sheedy manifested decided symptoms of joy, and clasping her arm around the neck of Mrs. Morgan and grasping the hand of Mrs. Dean, cast her eyes upward as though appealing to heaven in her joy at deliverance.

Monday McFarland laughed and cried by turns and was clasped in loving embrace by his insanely overjoyed wife. The scene was an affecting one.

Counsel Strode looked supremely happy.

The jury was then discharged.

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