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confessed that he had handed them up from the lower deck. I then put him irons till next day, when I sent him on shore by order of Capt: Rodham.
I know nothing about the stockings till I was present before Mr. Just: Hyde when Wheeler confessed that he had sold stockings to Mitchell and Mitchell confess’d that he had bot stocking of Wheeler. But whether they spoke of the stockings now produced I can’t say. To the best of my recollection Mr. Mitchell said he
had