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making a statement to Sgt. Malone. I told them what

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happened because of questioning.

for how this happened.

standing in a court.

I have no explanation

This is the first time I am

I do not have many friends.

My male friends in this island are Atwell and Ed. I

used to communicate with Franzel now and again. I

smoked marijuana, have smoked marijuana for the past

5 years. I had smoked marijuana on the 17th January.

Three of us usually smoke it, and on that day we

I do not know why I was

smoked about 6 to 8 cigarettes.

lying on the floor in the cel1",

He was cross-examined by Counsel for the Crown and

in answer to Mr. Archibald, "I got along fine with

Dr. Thomas when he visited me in the prison. I heard

Dr. Thomas this morning. I vomited more than once and

I feel he knew about it. After I took the bacardi and

coke I felt a kind of drunkish. It is true I went to a

house on Beef Island and asked for water. I don't

remember the time. I heard the rumour at the airport

that Miss Rabsatt was dead. This is after I came off the

plane. I then went towards Beef Island area.

sister called me Robert, she said "look at him no", and

I saw that my finger was bleeding.

where I got that blood from. I can recollect now what

happened between me and Miss Rabsatt.

When my

She did not ask me

I told Sgt. Malone I took the rope out of my pocket

and put it around her heck. That is true. At that

time I was standing in the door way between the pool

room and grocery. The door is very near to the street

door. I do not know if I got in the kitchen, when I

stabbed Miss Rabsatt I was in the grocery store. I told

Sgt. Malone that she did not say anything when I stabbed

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