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it; he got up again & made two or 3 more stabs at her. Several people came about the prisoner, but he held out the bayonet in his hand and said if any man molested him he would serve him the same way. He then made anor stab or two at her when she got hold of the bayonet with both her hands. Thereupon Williams a soldier in the same Battalion laid hold of his shoulders & was pulling him back, when a Serjt named Wm Rowe got the Bayonet out of the girl’s hands, carried it away and Baddaford was made Prisr