Statistics for occurrence #1 of “De Soto” in chapter 23, page 235 of William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1:
...ed on suspicion, and indicted at the petty sessions, but before the trial came on, the only witness who could swear against them was no more.
As Clup was riding home in his waggon, from the mill at De Soto , a click was heard in the lane, a patter of shot came hissing through the air, and Clup rolled back into the hind part of his waggon-dead.
His horses plodded home, with
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