Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-12
A NOVEL EXCUSE.
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Mr.. Lawrence Clark, who was summoned
to appear before the Superior Court of ANA.
dor county as a trial Juror, appeared before
Judge Moore last Monday and asked to be
excused, and offered as bis reason for desiring
to bs excused the following singular docu.
ment, which is now on file in the Clerks Of
fee, and which had the desired effect of re-
leasing him from jury duty:
1 VOLCANO, November Is, 1881,
have been summoned to appear as trial Juror.
/ am willing to be juror although have not been
juror since my boyhood. request to be given off
on the ground OF age and inexperience as Juror.
am sixty five to the best of my knowledge and be.
lief. / don't recollect the first of my existence
recollect being small boy in the United States of
America Boyina, Delaware county, State of New
York and recollect going to England, from Eng.
land to Scotland, and from Scotland back to Amer
lea again. am an American citizen to the best of
my knowledge and belief. have been legal voter
in the State of New York, and voted for a number
of Presidents. / used to vote the Wing ticket. |
was admitted to the board Independent OF birth
don't know where was born. There was not any
register OF fsmilys births in the house OF viii.
lam Clark. don't think there were any births to
register William Clark is said to have been an
unick and did not have any children Irecollect Of
the woman in the house where was raised from
small boy telling me that was her son by lawful
marriage betwixt one man and one woman, and my
father was king of Great Britain, and | was his
only son. She did not have any OF the rest of the
family but me. She said that William Clark was
man without seed, and was not my father. She also
told me that was not born in the house OF royalty
and that came from America. There was another
woman in the house who afterwards said what the
first woman said Was all true. She also said that
she was the woman that in the house at Chapel
bank, Scotland, when | went into the house at
Chapelbauk, Scotland She also said came from
America 1 know l was in America previous to
that date. l don't know where was born. hold
to the TRANSPORTATION Of my spirit my spirit was
myself Ny religious belief is that there is heaven
and there is hell, and that there is middle state
on the earth believe the spirit or soul after it
leaves the body at death may 20 to heaven and the
spirit of some may go to hell; and believe that
some do not go to heaven hell, but transfigures
and lives a second life en- earth. have lived a
former life on EARTH viii give scripture evidence
for my belief, John Ill and Z, g Marvel not that
said unto thee, We must be born again" / have
been born again since my former life, born of the
spirit Be it remembered that had an active hand
in the American revolutionary war. was an officer
in the army and was at the Booigan (Burgoyne)
surrender | had the Boorgan sword in my hand.
l received it from Lafayette, the French COM
mander. | claim the British surrender. 1t was to
me they surrendered in my former life. Evidently
have been born again the second time since the
revolutionary war. LAWRENCE CLARK.