Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: ReminiscencesMoore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, printers, 1858 - 640 pages |
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... head , from the back part of which hung a queue three feet long , tied from head to tip with an eel - skin , walking in evident superiority , in his own estimation , among the people in the court - yard , sounding the public mind as to ...
... head , from the back part of which hung a queue three feet long , tied from head to tip with an eel - skin , walking in evident superiority , in his own estimation , among the people in the court - yard , sounding the public mind as to ...
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... head , and one eye that looked as if it had been put in with red putty ; the other eye had long taken leave of his countenance . Gen. James Dill was the clerk of arraigns . The General was a distin- guished connecting specimen of the ...
... head , and one eye that looked as if it had been put in with red putty ; the other eye had long taken leave of his countenance . Gen. James Dill was the clerk of arraigns . The General was a distin- guished connecting specimen of the ...
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... head of the daugh- ter , and young Points fell from his seat a corpse , leaving the intended bride in her seat on the horse . She returned to the house with her father , and was the principal witness against him 2 DR . BRADBURN'S TRIAL ...
... head of the daugh- ter , and young Points fell from his seat a corpse , leaving the intended bride in her seat on the horse . She returned to the house with her father , and was the principal witness against him 2 DR . BRADBURN'S TRIAL ...
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... heads and brought them home before daylight on a sled ; and said that he could kill enough for his winter's meat for the ... head fell at least forty degrees . The case was closed before the jury . The proof was positive . I sprang to my ...
... heads and brought them home before daylight on a sled ; and said that he could kill enough for his winter's meat for the ... head fell at least forty degrees . The case was closed before the jury . The proof was positive . I sprang to my ...
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... head from the witness , slipped out her false teeth and wrapped them in her handkerchief , stepped quickly up to the witness , looked him full in the face , opened her mouth wide exhibiting a few rotten snags : " Did you ever see me ...
... head from the witness , slipped out her false teeth and wrapped them in her handkerchief , stepped quickly up to the witness , looked him full in the face , opened her mouth wide exhibiting a few rotten snags : " Did you ever see me ...
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