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...between it and another large stone and injured it considerably.
After this I came down to Shippingport and was told that Jeremiah Fipps [possibly spelled Phipps / Phips] (who was lately tryed for shooting a negro and sentenced to state prison one year, and afterwards got a new trial and was cleared) had killed another man! I went up to the place where the man was; he was not dead but had been struck on the forehead with the but of a gun when nearly drunk; which had so stunned him as to make him appear dead. Fipps was...

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...arrested and taken to jail but I think will not be punished.
Fryday May 22 1829
This morning before breakfast there was three 'fights' - single combat between men in our street of which I was witness to one. No notice is taken of such occurances by the civil authorities. Fipps was released this morning. When I went to the bridge I was told that last evening after I left there a man fell from the top of the middle centre which is about 50 feet above a small pool of water below, but happily had presence of mind sufficient to catch hold of one of the braces near...