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When the complaining witness is a woman who has merely lost
money through the acts of the defendant, the jury are not so
readily moved to accept her story in toto as when the crime
charged is of a different character. They realize that the
complainant, feeling that she has been injured, may be
inclined to color her testimony, perhaps unconsciously, until
the wrong becomes a crime.
An ordinary example of this variety of prosecution is where
the witness is a young woman from the East Side, usually a
Polish or Russian Jewess, who charges the defendant, a youth
of about her own age, with stealing her money by means of
false pretences. They have been engaged to be married, and
she has turned over her small savings to him to purchase the
diamond ring and perhaps set him up in a modest business of
his own. He has then fallen in love with some other girl, has
broken the engagement, and the ring now adorns the fourth
finger of her rival. Her money is gone. She is without a
dot.
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