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on a Cot & sit down by it. I immediately seized him by the right hand & took him prisoner. I then led him out into the veranda & delivd him to a Serjeant & a party of men. I still heard Hopkins crying out when I came out wth the prisr Hopkins was then standing. I then took the firelock & examined it. when it found it had all the appearances of a gun that had bn just fired.
When the gun was fired we were 4 or 5 paces from the prisr. From the time of my coming out just after the
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