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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1177-1">James Farquharson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1177-2">James Mc. Manus</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this Ninth Day of September 1789</p>
<p n="1178">Who being upon Oath severally say, and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-1">James Farquharson</rs>
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for himself says, that on Saturday<lb></lb>
Night last between the Hours of Nine and Ten, as he and the<lb></lb>
other Informants<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
were attending their Duty as patroles<lb></lb>
they met three Persons now present, who call themselves<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-2">William Charlton</rs>
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otherwise Charrington, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-3">George Clarke</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-4">John Wright</rs>
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, whom they stop'd, and examined as<lb></lb>
Suspicions Persons; that he this Informant seized the<lb></lb>
person calling himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-5">William Charlton</rs>
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, whom he found<lb></lb>
Armed with<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Cutlass and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
pistol, now produced that while he held said<lb></lb>
Charlton, he (Charlton) discharged a loaded pistol at<lb></lb>
this Informant, and the Ball or slugs with which said<lb></lb>
Pistol was loaded<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
went through this Informants Coat, on the<lb></lb>
left side and struck (as Informant verily believes) on one of his<lb></lb>
Waistcoat Buttons, and by its force bruised him near the<lb></lb>
pit of his StomackAnd this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-6">James Mc.<lb></lb>
Manns</rs>
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, for himself saith, that he was present when<lb></lb>
the prisoners were met with, and stop'd as aforesaid<lb></lb>
that he saw the Prisoner Charlton otherwise Charrington<lb></lb>
fire at Informant Farquharson, and this Informant<lb></lb>
further saith, that he secured the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-7">John Wright</rs>
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<lb></lb>
upon whom he found the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Cutlass and a Pistol now producedAnd<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-8">Joseph Jackson</rs>
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for himself saith,<lb></lb>
that he also was present, when the prisoners were<lb></lb>
met with, and stop'd as aforesaid; that he did not see the<lb></lb>
Prisoner Charlton fire at Informant Farquharson<lb></lb>
but heard the report of a Pistol, and afterwards found that<lb></lb>
Farquharson had been shot through the Coat and bruised<lb></lb>
on the Breast and this Informant further saith that he secured<lb></lb>
the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1178-9">George Clarke</rs>
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, upon whom he found the Cutlass<lb></lb>
now produced</p>
<p n="1179">Sworn the day and year aforesaid<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="1180">W Addington}</p>
<p n="1181"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1181-1">Jas Farquharson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1181-2">Jas Mc Manns</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1181-3">Joseph Jackson</rs>
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