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Recollect that when first he was brot to me he desired to be carried before One of the Judges or a Justice. He was at that time Kept several days in Custody.

4the Witness for the King
Peter Baptiste
On the 13th of last July between nine and ten o’clock at night, I was ordered by Mr. Motte to go and look at the body of a man who was murdered. It was lying in the street near Mr. Motte’s door. The man was dead before I got up to him, and lay on his back. I opened the breast of his shirt, & saw a wound a little on one