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The Information of
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, the Prisoner, was in Company with
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Several others, in the said Cellar, that the said Davis and
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his Companions pushed this Deponent against the Wainnott,
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and afterwards struck him, and gave him Several blows, on
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and about his Head and fail, that as Soon as they had left
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beating this Deponant they went out of the Cellar. this
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Deponent then immediately cry'd out that he was rob'd of
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but all said they knew nothing of it. That about Six days
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House that one
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said Davis in the Street. and took him into Custody
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