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in a kept
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oath that he has examined the body of the deced and says
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there are two wounds on the neck of the deced. both of which
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appear to have been given
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with tally from a Pistol or Green
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& to have entered on the right side of the Neck and paper
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through out of the left side. Dept says the Wounds and mortal
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and Dept has no doubt but they occasioned the death of the
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Sworn the
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maketh oath that last Saturday night between the hours of 12 &
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1 Dept went up stairs for go to bed and went into her own room
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the two pair of stairs back room above the began curling her hair
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came into the room with some water for her and stayed with her
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some time taking
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was gone, about ten minutes afterwards she believes she
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heard something thrown against the Window; that she sat a little white
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& that the
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the had heard something only but presently
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she heard something thrown again, upon which she went to the Window
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to see what it was and then saw Mr. Edis lying upon his own record by
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his Kitchen Window & Dept. received her hand to him to go away &
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then turned away form the Window and in about five minutes she
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returned to the Window and looked and he was gone. That then she
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went out fo that room into the front room to sleep as her father had
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ordered her, and in about quarter of an hour or twenty minutes
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she heard Pistol go off, and somebody came and made a great wine
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at the door of the room she was in but she could us speak to them
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