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room. She was a lady aged about 66-67, and she ran
this business there all alone. They say she was a
fairly healthy strong woman for her age. Some witness
told you that she could throw around a bag of sugar.
She could lift up a case of beer, and stout and the
like. That evidence is simply to indicate to you that
she wasn't an ailing woman. She was a healthy creature
in being. She ran her business there, she did all sorts
of things, she sold peanuts, she sold some item call
special, and she sold in her grocery stout and other
things. In this pool room people gathered there to
play pool. The accused himself has been there a
few times to play pool, and we understand that this
lady kept her money from the various items in separate
little paper hags special money will be in one bag,
peanut money will be in another, but she kept these
bags in a wooden glass cabinet.
Now the accused your were told is quite a quiet
person, not a boisterous person, more often or not by
himself, he didn't have many friends, but he played
pool sometimes, that's the game he liked, and he would
go down to this pool room sometimes and he himself tells
you that he and Miss Rabsatt were fairly good friends,
so much so, that sometimes she will allow him to go and
collect his stcut himself.
Now he was here visiting from another island, he
comes from St. Lucia. He was spending time with his
sister and boyfriend.
Had been here since round about
September last year and he did the odd job now and
again, worked occasionally for Franzel Penn, who is the
son of Etheleen Thomas. But he tells you that he used
to smoke marijuana. He goes up in the hill with a
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