Witness Statement: Richard Rorke continuing the account of his actions

interfere any any more, when I got near Mr Mullocks a ball went thro the shutter where I was standing. Upon the my reading the Papers- I afterwards was surprised that Mr Frost was so- near me and I not see him, he must have been very much disguised or I must have seen him, or the frustration of my mind must have prevented my seeing him - Rich d Rorke Taken before us Octavius Morgan James Coles Sam l Homfray Thom s Hawkins
With respect to the Paper mentioned I know by Etheridge I know nothing at all about it. I was - always for supporting morality in the Association, when I was about absent I wrote to the Association to keep morality in view, & not to have any physical force or any destruction of property , and if they heard any one talk physical to turn him out of the association, that I stood for principle & begged them not to be denouncing
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