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Gen. Swain

My servant boy William Harvy requests this note to you from me. He complains that he was arrested on New Year's evening by a policeman without a cause, as he was not drunk nor boisterous. I cannot give any testimony in the case, further than to say that he was not drunk when he left my house in the after noon about half past four or five o clock, likely the latter. I do not rember the precise hour. I must say however