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good & has to shoot me on the first site the day after your Men left Opelika they had me arrested and treated shamfully and made me agree to go & work for him. That is Starr all the year to keep him from proscute me I can prove by my Brother who was present when Starr shot me that I did not take his corn for Starr was present when I fed his Horses and had no chance to steal corn and for him to treat me in the manner that he has is wrong I want you to write to Starr and tell him to give my children up and write to me or   H. B. Smith so that I may no what to do I can take them with a writ of Habeus