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the arm was so badly swolen that it was impossible for him to find and extract the ball. He further testified that at that time Mr JOnes told him the same statement about the shooting of the said Rosanna that Jone made on his examination before the Magistrate, that the wound could not have been inflicted by a stick, but that it was in his opinion a pistol shoe wound. Rosanna testified that Mr Jones came in the kitchen when she was at work with a pistol in one hand and a large stick in the other, that Mr Jones's struck her with the stick a severe blow that she started to run, that Jones ordered her to stop that Jones shot at her once or twice. That she did not know whether the wound on the arm was made by the stick or a ball. That at the time she was very much fritened and excited. That sometimes Jones punished her very hard.