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ent parts in Lieut. Leidtke's district, and their testimony is contained in affidavits herewith transmitted. I would respectfully state (as it may make the matter better understood in some of the details of the troubles said to have existed between Lieut. Leidtke and his wife) that the embarrassment which accompanies inquires into a man's family affairs caused me to refrain from asking Mrs Leidtke in regard to the statements made by Dr Barker, but I furnished Lieut Leidtke with a copy of the charges and requested a statement from him in answer, which is herewith transmitted. After this and before I called upon Dr Barker Mrs Leidtke requested me to state to him, "that as he had been the family physician up to the time of the birth of her child she had hoped he would have not taken advantage of anything she had said to him as a friend, that she had never called upon him for aid in his capacity of Magistrate, as is set forth in his letter but only as a friend and physician" I gave this message to Dr Barker in person, at his house, and his answer to it was "that he had not so understood the matter, that his relations there were such, that