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about eight o'Clock the same Evening as this Examinant
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was going to ward Dixon's Lodging, he heard the People
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in the Street say that "Dixon was committed" which prevented
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this Examinant from going there. That a Crown Waistcoat
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which the Examinants wore at the time he stabbed said
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Man he throw into a Vault at a Public House near Prim-
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-rose Hill, it having some of the Man's Blood on it
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That Dixon was dressed in an olive coloured lappelled
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Coat with White Buttons. That no other Person whatsoever
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Alexander Dixon
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and
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this Examinant in robbing and Stabbing the said Man
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as Aforesaid. And this Examinant further says that
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be does not make this Confession from any Threats or
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and that no innocent person may be charged with
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the same Wicked Fact
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Henry Morgan
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Taken and signed before me
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the 12th.. Day of July 1784.}
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