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Charged with the larceny of gas.

--A. J. D. Ingersoll, of Boston, is on trial before the Superior Court of that city, charged with the larceny of one hundred thousand feet of coal gas from the Boston Gas Light Company. It was claimed that the felonious use of gas covered a period of a year, during which he paid about $7 to the company for gas. It was shown that he has a gas-cooking apparatus, which he used extensively during the time, and once let a tenant use, charging him $3 per month for his proportion of the gas burned.

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