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it is normally kept outside, and I went to bed. I did not
eat or drink anything before I went to bed, nor did not
smoke either. I did not close my bedroom door.
I went
to bed and woke up about 6.00 a.m. on Wednesday, 19th
January, 1977 and washed a pants and a shirt and I hung
them on the outside clothes line. My sister and her
boyfriend were still in their bedroom. I hung around my
home until around 9.00 a.m.
My sister and her boyfriend were still in their
bedroom.
When I woke up on Wednesday, 19th January, 1977
I got dressed in a blue pullover shirt, a brown pants,
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a pair of red sneakers. At about 9.00 a.m. on 19th January,
1977 I took up my sister's kitchen knife which is a folding
steel knife and I put it in my right front pants pocket with
the intention to go down to Miss Evelyn shop to buy a stout 15
and then to go up to the hill to cut a bush broom. I took a
piece of white rope from my clothes line in the house to
tie the broom. I used my sister's kitchen knife to cut
the piece of rope from my clothes line in my room. I
walked down to the shop, I did not meet anyone on my
way. I met Miss Evelyn in the shop at the back room,
I took a stout from the refrigerator in the pool room
as I normally do and I stayed at the door facing the
room that she was in. I stretched out my hand and gave
her a dollar for the stout and I told her to keep the
change and that I would return for another drink. Her
stout costs 70¢. She then asked me if I had brought back
her money and I asked her what money she was talking
about. I asked her if she saw me took her money and
she said no, and I then asked her how she was expecting
me to bring it back. She then said that she did not
see me take it but she believed that
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