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Thomas Shoatman, being sworn in, states as follows:
I
was present with
the bones at the jail. Celia said that she struck Newsom two blows with
a
stick. When she struck the first time, he fell and appeared to throw
his hands
up. The reason she gave for striking him a second time was that he
threw his
hands up. That she was afraid he would catch her. She said she did not
intend
to kill him when she struck him, but only to hurt him. She was neither
at or
towards his back - not immediately before him. She struck down, on or
towards a
stool. After she struck the second blow, she examined to see whether he
were
dead. He was dead. Waited a long time, did not know what to do. She
thought she
would try to burn him, and pushed him into the fireplace and burned
him. The
stick with which she struck was so large as the top part of the chair,
of a Windsor chair above the seat but not
so
long.
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