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BEP(F.774.049
26 Sep 1774:32 (2035)
Falmouth, (Casco-Bay,) August, 1774. The following
melancholy affair happened in this town, between the hours
of one and four in the morning of the 20th instant, viz. A
soldier having been drummed out of a regiment at New-York,
came here and hired himself to Mr. Staples; took this
opportunity in Mr. Staple's absence to commit a rape on the
body of his wife, threatening at the same time, if she made
any resistance he would cut her with a sharp knife. . . [he
tried to take her to Quebec; she escaped; they caught the
perpetrator] N.B. Mrs. Staple was seven months gone in her
pregnancy.
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