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Edinburgh Indictment for Captain Porteous Fire Murder Case
Reports from Edinburgh describe Porteous the late City Guard captain charged by indictment with murdering several persons during an execution on April 14. He allegedly ordered guards to fire into the crowd and fired himself, causing one death and eleven wounded.
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