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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 19.1.77 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 bed-

room. When I woke up on Wed. 19.1.77 I got dressed in a blue pullover shirt,

a brown pants, a pair of red sneakers. At about 9.00 am. on 19.1.77 I took

my sisters 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 stoutt and then to go up 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 10

used my sister's 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 stoutt from the frigerator in

the pool-room as I normally do and I stayed at the door facing the room that

she was in. I stretthed out my hand and gave her a dollar for the stoutt and 15

I told her to keep the change and that I would return for another drink.

Her stoutt 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 20

that I took it and that she was going to put obeah on me and then the Policeman.

I then told her that she was determined to do me wrong things when I did not

take up her money. She was then standing in the same room I met her in with

my dollar in her hand and I was standing in the same bar-room that I was in

all the time. She then said that Tomorrow I was going to find out. I had the

rope in my "left TROUSER POCKET" and I took it out and put it around her neck.

I was holding the ends of the rope at the back of her neck. Miss EVELYN said,

"wait, wait, what are you doing I then said, "STOP SCANDALIZING my name",

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I then pulled/tight. I was standing behind her. She tried to grab me from

behind but I ducked. I pushed her inside the room, then pulled the knife and

I stabbed her in her head. I used my RIGHT Hand to stab her. I had then tied

the rope around her neck at the back. I do not remember which side of her

head I stabbed her. I do not remember how many times I stabbed hæ,

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