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Excerpt from The Trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter Hacket, Richard M'niel, James Gibb, and William M'lean, the Glasgow Cotton-Spinners: Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Charges of Murder, Hiring to Commit Assassinations, and Committing, and Hiring to Commit, Violence to Persons and Property
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