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Hamlin Ashford & James Todd all colored testified virtually as Clay did. Acknowledged that the man Holom lost all his money at play but claimed that it was his fault that he would play and they accommodated him. Admitted they treated & drank freely but claimed that H. treated as well as they in fact they let him do pretty much all of the treating.

Read the section of the Code of Alabama to them that punishes gambling and explained to them that now as free men they were placed before the law the same as white men - the same laws that punished white men punished them that now there was no master to punish nor to screen them from punishment, but they stood equal before the law. Referred the testimony to the Supt. read to him that provision of the Code touching the case and informed him of my opinion. He directed that it should be the harshest penalty of the law and recommended the clearing out by a guard if necessary of Clays Inn stating that it was nothing but a net to catch the ignorant negro and fleece him