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304:"I should like to say this, that if the head of the man who was struck had been the head of the man who was known as Killarney every one of you would have been justly convicted of manslaughter of a most aggravated nature, and if the skull of the man who was killed had been of the ordinary thickness of a man's skull, every one of you would have been guilty of murder."
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553:"AFL Tables – Harry Prout – Games Played"
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