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Had the pistol at my breast I caught hold of that arm which held the pistol and he had a white sleeved Waist coat on. On my seizing his arm he took me by the collar, and again demanded my money, and tore my shirt neck and stork; He then sprung from me and I ran away towards the fort. He ran after me threatening to blow my brains out if I did not stop. I then turned to the left intending to take to the plain, but I stumbled & had like to have fallen
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