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of the servants [ILL] supposed it to be a watch because they had heard the gentlemen talking about a Watch.
I searched Prisoner’s turban there was nothing, I then examined the cloth about his waist, and found a watch hanging to it (on the inside) by a string. I said what is here? & attempted to seize it, but he ran off, first as if he would go into my room, but changed his course & ran into the house, I ran after him. He ran first into the writers office which is an open veranda lifted up the