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to hire him this year and he shot him because the freedman choose to hire elsewhear he says that negroes who once belonged to him shall not work for  other men. They shall either work for him or leive the county he makes his boast continually that he don't call upon Yankies to govern negroes for him The boy Booker to whom he shot lay senseless and speechless for some tim after he was shot the ball not taking affect sufficiently to kill. he has told different persons since that he shot a slug of lead at him and fully intended to kill him when he shot  
This same man beat a woman unmercifully with a stick a few days past without any provocation whatever except that she would not hire to him the present year she hired to him last year and he paid her nothing for her services.