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"the ""Ruby"", they pointed / out the position Robinson / was in when he was"

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a man named Allan
McDougall was then in
charge of the "Ruby". When
I took the gins on board
the "Ruby", they pointed
out the position Robinson
was in when he was
struck by a piece of
firewood by one of the
aboriginals who is now
in the lockup. I searched
the boat carefully I
found no blood marks
or traces that there had
been a murder committed
on board. I afterwards
searched about the reef
where the murder was