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Petitioner will be brought to utter Ruin of the sentence passed
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upon him by this Honourable Court is carried into Execution
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That your Petitioner solemnly declares to this
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Honourable Court that the Evidence given by the Witness on
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his behalf was their own voluntary testimony and not dictated
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to them by your Petitioner or any other person an his behalf our
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did your Petitioner know any of them or what testimony any they
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could give before be made Enquiry in the Neighbourhood to find
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out any person who had seen the accident happen
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That your Petitioner has for a considerable time
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past been in an all state of health and is very Apprehensive
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and fearful that so long and a close Confinement will be the
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Occasion of his death before the expiration of the term for which
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he has been sentenced to be Imprisoned
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly
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Prays in this Honourable Court
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will be pleased to take his Case into their
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humane consideration and remit the heavy
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sentence of Imprisonment pronounced
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upon him Your Petitioner being willing
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to make Reparation to the utmost of his
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Power for the Injury which the said
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has sustained
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And your Petitioner and his helpless
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family as in duly bound will ever pray
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