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price. I suspected it was stolen having been informed that morning that Mr. Williams had lost one; and also especially as he called me aside to offer it. I asked him a few qutns respecting it, & he sd that he had it from another man, but that he did not chuse to tell the name because that person was indebted to him. He afterwards, on my questioning him further, said the person’s name was Smith. I asked where Mr. Smith lived, he pointed eastward but gave me no particular information about it.
I told him it was not my custom