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The Information of
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about twenty minutes after One oClock this Afternoon as
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Thomas Griffith
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the Prisioner point his hand toward the said Gentleman
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James Butler
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to Mr. Brand Surgeon. also on his
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Oath saith that as he was walking down
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a little
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after One o'Clock this Afternoon. he observed a Lady and Gentn.
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the Report of Pistol and this Informant also saw the aforesaid
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Cellar and several other people came to his assistance-and
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the Prisioner let the Pair of Pistols (tied togather with pack thread)
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fall out of his hands, and this Informants took them up. and
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are the same now produced.
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his
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James
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Butler
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Sworn before us two of his Majesty's
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Justices
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of the Peace
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ninth Day of July 1787
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