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Guy Godfrey freedman being duly sworn deposes and says I have been living with Lt. Leidtke as house servant for the year past and during that time he (Lt Leidtke) has never shot at any one about the premises, and I have never heard of any [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] shooting by him anywhere else. I have been his house servant and cook and I know this to be the fact. During my acquaintance with Lieut Leidtke I have never seen him drunk. He is always one way, equal to the colored people or any one around him, in his dealings. During the past year Lieut Leidtke has never turned his wife out of doors. I know this, I have been there living at the house he lives in. I know Hester Simmons the Yellow woman who Dr Barker says he heard that Lieut Leidtke tried to have illicit intercourse with. She lives near Backriver. She has lived for a long time with a Mr. Stoney, and she has had an illegitimate child. My neighbors tell me it was Stoney's child - I don't know myself.

Guy his x mark Godfrey

Subscribed and sworn to before me this fifth day of February 1868
E.W. Everson
Inspr Bu RF. & A.L.

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