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the Capt of the

On board the Brition barque Frederick | Seclaration o the 25th day of July 1876, at 12.45 pm. Shije, m. Ple

the judge accompanied by the Fiscal and us the witnesses, appeared Mr. Patrick Keating, Captain of the ship, married, aged 52 with 5 children, belonging to the town of Ermishalen, of the district of Ireland, Great Britain, who

says

he

is a Roman Catholie and under the

oath which he took through the- Interpreter,

no John Robinson (who

· happened to be on board and who

undertook to interpret faithfully)

declared

Question who had wounded him

and for what reason and

explain all details.

Said Robert Smith, James Brown, &

John Cottle, sailors

without being

aware

of

this casil

of their

say

reason and all he can

that about 11.30 from the

-previous evening when he

was

انهار

asleep in his cabin, be

was aroused by the blows which they inflicted with an iron belaying pin weighing 6th.. the first blow the, which awakened him, was given

aru

on the inside of the left. which lay

on his breast and

the second on Crown of the head and forehead w??