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That another had one a bloody shirt, But when the poore Indians had answered for them themselves, & by good evidence cleared matters, all those pleas were figments: for the indians would by many witness that they were all at marlborough the whole Sabath Day at the worship of God in their forte & at the very time the murder was comittied at Lancaster 10 miles distant, that the bandolers that one of them had, he came honestly by them & that they were delivered at mount hope by one of the commissioners unto James Rumny Marsh an Indian soldier there & delivrd to him to bring home for him; the comissoner Mr Moss owned in court that he had delivered a p pair of bandoleers to James & he being in court witnessed that he sent them home by the indian accused. That the shirt became bloody by venison newly killed by those indians whereof this man carried a part upon his back, for it was made - evident that that those 11 Indians with others were abroad a hunting the Saturday before towards Lancaster and had killed 3 deare which they divided among them [as their manner is], & returned to their fort in marleborough same Saturday evenig: And others of them had bloody shirts upon the same ocassion, besides the person accused, so that upon the tryall were aquited exept one man who was found guilty of being accesary to the murder, but this man named Joseph Spoonant was tryed by another jury not the same that tried the others Upon what ground the jury went I know not, but that man was sould for a slave & sent out of the country, Also the first avisor of them all called David was condemned to be sould his crime alledged for suspicion of shooting an Irish boy at marlborogh & for accusing the others falsly, but all the rest were discharged; Before the conclusion of the tryall God in his providence so ordered that two prisoners of the enemy were taken at two distinct times