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me that [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] he was trying to bring them under his power, against their will, under color of law. 

He was not gratified in this, but by some means he had retained possession of the boy named Hope. This boy is almost entirely deaf, and half witted. He would be helpless against any wrong that was attempted against him. He came to this place with Hillyer, and when he had found his sister, begged that she would save him from going back with his employer. She however, did not attempt to restrain him, but, when Hillyer came for the boy, she stated to him that she did not know where he was, he having gone out on the streets to look up some work. Hillyer came to me then, for a guard to go and bring him before me. Which I furnished him. This time, when they reached the sisters house, she said again that Hope was out on the streets somewhere, but she did not know where. At this Hillyer, in presence of the guard caught up a heavy battling stick, used in washing and rushed at the woman, but was prevented from striking her by the guard. The boy Hope was afterwards before me, and told in his simple minded way such stories of Hillyer