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The woman nevertheless got out at the door, the prisr followed her, and I follow’d slowly to see the consequence, but before I got out of the door the prisoner was seized by the people. I then went up to the woman who had fallen down in a Ditch about 20 feet from the Barrack. She was lying there unable to help herself.
What I have called a ditch is a drain lined with brickwork for carrying off water from the Barracks.
I and two other soldiers carried