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L.S. 28
C 101

Bur R F and A. L.
Hd Qrs Sub Dist Orange
Hillsboro N.C. Aug. 29" 1867.

Col Jacob F. Chur
A.A.A. Genl
Raleigh N.C.

Colonel
In compliance with endorsed communication Dated Hd Qrs Asst. Comr State of NC Aug.23d 1867.

I have the honor to report that I have been in attendance upon the August term of the county court of Orange Co. during the trial of Lucy Council for Larceny and receiving  stolen goods knowing them such. Lucy Council was defended by Messrs York & Argo. The enditement included her two sons, named, Write Council & Sidny Booth. They having absconded, Lucy Council alone was on Trial. 

The state produced evidence, both White & Colored to the effect, that Andrew B. Couch, on the last Saturday night of March 67. had about one barrel of corn stolen from his crib. Upon searching the following morning, tracks of two men were found about the Crib and traced across an old field to where a mule had been fastened. From there they traced the tracks of one man and mule to Lucy Councils corn Crib, where they found corn which they identified as the corn stolen from Couch, but which Lucy Council claimed as her own. That they measured the track of one of the men 

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