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come up here to Court. Mr. Raborn did not show or draw his knife when she was coming to Union Springs, nor did he use any effort to keep her from coming to the Springs. She went back [[strikethrough]] to day [[/strikethrough]]  same day and went to work and has been getting along well - Says Mr. Raborn choked her girl because she would not turn her plough wand right. She never expected the matter to be heard of again as she considered it settled

Sworn to & subscribed before me Ceresy her X mark
5 Apl 1866  Thos Pullum Agent

John Haskey being called and sworn says, (The Court showed Mr Haskey the Letter - purporting to have been written by John Haskey) That he knows working of the Letter named, does not know the handwriting, never before heard of the case represented and had nothing whatever to do with or any knowledge of the letter in question
John Haskey
Sworn to &  subscribed}     
before me 5 Apl 1866}

Ben Raborn being called and sworn says that Ceresy came to him about one month after Christmas and begged him to hire her & Children he did so. The difficulty with this woman originated about his taking her daughter by the Throat and shaking her for not holding her plough