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desire you to wait till their return when you might take your bottles?
Answ. No. Prisoner did not desire me to wait till the frenchman should come. He said he had the bottles from frenchmen, but did not say that they would return for them nor that he was to give them back to the Frenchmen.
I said before, and I now swear again that whne I was first examining the bottles and the prisoner came out of an inner room, he took them of my hands and said that he did not steal the liquor he had purchased (or bought it of some frenchman. I swear that