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[[investi]]gated, that the following day he sought for and found the man Robert Moore who had told him the story and after much [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] persuasion induced him to go with him to the Office of the Freedmans Bureau, that on arriving at the City Hall Moore refused to go in and said that he was mistaken in the place that he had not paid any money there that it was at Col Franks Office where he had paid the money, that this deposant then compelled him to go to Col Franks Office, but that he refused to go in there and said the man to whom he had paid the dollar was not in there. I then told him that I believed he was a liar and this deposant says that he believes the entire story to be false.

S. W. Nash

Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 14th day of 
June 1867
J. Hackelford J. P