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of
where there were one indian woman and three
Indian men which appeared to be in conversation with
each other, when one of the man (whose name I am
informed is Aske
woman on the right side side of the neck with a
bunch of arrows which appeared to be in a tangled
position. the woman then
and the next thing I saw, was, the woman
in
out of the shop by
and laid at the end of the shop near where the
act was
while he
I belive was
which was given at the time of the stroke with
the bunch of arrow by the above named Indian
the above mentioned Indian woman is by name (as I am informed)
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holy
the
eight hundred and eleven
with an
indain woman in the street of
the
man
appeared to be
that there was two other Indain men standing by them
that
one of the Indains that was standings by mounted a
horse, that when he
had mounted on the horse the said
Indain woman
the horse and
her that the indian man which had been
talking with
the said indian woman
when
the said indian woman saw she went to the
side of the house by an old
Indian man. that the Indian
man who had been talkings with the said
Indian woman
took an arrow (not armed) made of wood &
the said indian woman
on the
whether on
the right or left side that the Indian
woman immediately
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The
The body of
and
say
of a wound in the
the
the
name of
to
the
of
dead
man.
Given
this
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of
and that he has emaxined the wound on the body of Othepa
dead in the street
ame Roubidous, that
death of the said
wound that the said wound - was upon the
right
to have been about
in
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You are hereby commanded to summon
eighteen good and Lawful men, house holders of this
township,
of the peace a
of Inquest on a dead
of
Charles
Joseph
Norman
Alex. Grimo
Adam Wolfort
James Baird
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Be it rmembend that on this
year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and eleven
personally came and appeand before me
themselves to stand in
levied
and
The
is such that is the above named Thomas
be and appear at the next court
to be
Ya (or the head) and do not depart the said
without leave thereof then this
void else to he and
in
Recognisance
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Excuted by making
proclamation a
copy of which is here
to attached
of
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Where as the honourable
of the Judges of
the general court for the
territory of
directed to the sheriff of the destrict of
of july
terminer
holden at the court house for the distict
of
day of
where of he has assigned to
himself for the
trial of all offences punishable with death
by the
laws of this territoy and more
of the mascoutah tribe named
Askena
made on oath of having committed
the crime of murder in the
on an indian woman there fore in
the requsition of the writ
a court for the
be held at the term and place aforesaid all
persons concerned are required to give there
attendance of the law directs at there
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Whereas a
A
the
which
it
named
Askena wa
and remains and remains under the
said sheriff on a
having
on a
district of
the
those things which the
monday
set my hand and seal at my
Territory
A.
D 1811
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you are here by
good and lawfull
of
with
in the afore said district by a certain Indian of the
man for which the said indian is committed
in the gaol of the
make such
which
then and thre this
in
twenty four men
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You are hereby commanded to summons
person before the judges of our Court of
day of
the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
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You are hereby commanded to summons
that setting aside all
manner of excuse and delay
person before the judges of our Court of
day of
the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now
pending in our said court,
wherein
defendant, on the
part of the
there this writ.
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You are hereby commanded to summons
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay
- day of
the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
defendant, on the part of the
Excuted
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Indictment
for
murder
A
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The grand
of
man belonging to the
ritory
being moved and reduced by the
the
thousand eight hundred and eleven
an Indian woman, in the peace of God and of the
then and there being,
he the said
had and held, the same
of the
afor thought did
then and there with the arrow
side of the neck in or near the
said
inch and of the depth of six inches of which said
wound in the year
aforsaid, the said
the said
form
ght
did
statute in such cases made and provided and against the
peace and dignity of the
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You are hereby commanded to
that setting aside
all manner of excuse and delay
person before the judges of our Court of
sixth
the truth to say in a certain matter of
controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
defendant,
on the part of the
there this writ.
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You are hereby commanded to summons
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay
person before the judges of our Court of
sixth
the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
defendant, on the part of the
there this writ.
Executed
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We command you to
good and
they then
of
shall
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We command you to
good and
appear in their proper
of
September
day then
the
make you due
have you then there this writ
In obediance to the
forty Eight
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37 John
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On
I left a copy of the
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We
for
now sitting at the
court house in the town
of
then and there to
a
in
his appearance before the said as a
of
the
you then there
this
Excuted
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12
12
4854
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33
45
45
495
4884
$4,000
the Body of the
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District of
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Wm. O. Allen and
for
Court to be permitted to be permitted now
to answer to
the
changed. Objected to by Thomas
attorney
the
motion before the court is that the prisoner may be permitted to answer the
He will appear from the
minutes of Monday Last that the prisoner has been already ar
raiged,
that he did
of not
guilty has been
entered at a proper time and under all the circumstances that the Land
constables
Is the point now to be
law provides that the person accused and
copy
of the
two entire days at least before the trial, that
this has not been the
case in the present instance
to him two entire days before he was required
to answer
to the
of the governor in
of
congress for the trial of