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The Informations of
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taken before me Sir
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Knight this 15th. Day of June 1789.
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Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said
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for himself says that about one o'Clock in the Morning
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of Wednesday lash the wth. Instant it being then shewg motion light as he this Informant in
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Company with the other Informant were returning from the Queens
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Head Public Horse in
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, about Midway of the Turnpike Road leading from Mother
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Red Caps upon the
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Informants
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aside with one hand and struck
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at said Man with the other, that Informant then fell down and his hat fell off and as
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he was
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said Man again presented the pistol at himthat
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and said Man
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that upon Informant coming again near the said Man, he
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again ran away and said Man pursued, and again both returned
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the pistolthat the said Two Men they ran away Fields that during all this Time neither of said Two Men
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neither did the Man that was in Company with him that
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or say anything
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whatsoeverAnd this Informant also says that the has never seen
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his hat sinceThat he this Informant has several Times been
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at the sign of the Britania on the
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where he has
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and who he this Informant always understood to be one of
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the patrole Employed from the Public Office in
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and that
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at the said House
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and he this Informant believes that the said
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