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A.C. Richmond Esq're, states, that he is a member of the Provost Court for Berkeley District, and that he has sat on said Court as Associate Judge, with Lt F.W. Liedtke as presiding Judge, most of the time from the opening of the Court (he believes) in November, 1867, up to the 1st of January 1868, and that since the convening of the Convention at Charleston he has been absent from Moncks Corner, he being a member of the said convention.  He states that he has lived at Moncks Corner for the past year, near Lt Liedtke, and has been on intimate terms with him and with his family, and that he has never seen him under the influence of intoxicating liquor during that time.  "I heard the (Captain) Lt Liedtke say once, that one night some persons were breaking into his premises, and he got up and thought he saw two persons running, and fired a musket in that direction.  I never heard anyone speak of his trying to have illicit intercourse with a colored woman:  this is the first I have heard of any such thing, and I am acquainted in the neighborhood.  If such a thing had occurred I would certainly have heard of it.  I am aware of a difficulty having existed between Lt Liedtke and his wife.  Mrs Liedtke told me of the difficulty.  She never told me, nor I never heard that her husband turned her out of doors once.  She stated to me that once they had a quarrel and she went out on the piazza and staid a while and her husband induced her to go back into the house.  She told me this one morning after her husband had gone away on business, without telling her where he was