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The Voluntary Examination and Confession of
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between the Hours of Nine and Ten last night
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who asked him to go with them That they went to
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St. Georges
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where they met
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and a Little Boy who then Stopt and robbed-That his
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pence from the Gentleman says he had only a knife
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but his Companions had each of them a Cutlass
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soon after stopped a man and a Woman in the
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was robbed The said Man and Woman calling
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out Murder They all run away a little distance
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making his Escape
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Taken and Signed
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the 18th day of June 1787
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Before me
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Sworn and admitted Evidence
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Before me this
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21st June 1787
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