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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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