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the stomach, as appeared from the aliment that came thro’ wound, and it had gone out at the back near the Spine on the same side.
It appeared to me to be a wound given by a bullet & not by a sharp instrument. I stay’d with him till very near the instant of his death; - of which that wound was certainly the cause.
I asked him what he meant to do with his effects, & whether he meant to give them