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The girls father (Clayborn) had for years before her mother (his wife's) death been in an almost constant feud with her and finally some months before her death and at the commencement of her lingering and painful illness she repeatedly affirmed that he under the garb of reconciliation & friendship administered to her a glass of spirits which contained some drug or poison that preyed upon her vitals and health and finally destroyed her life. her condition & symptoms justified her affirmation and as further proof of his guilt he then deserted her and never visited her afterwards even in the darkest hours of her suffering distress and death but told other negroes that he had accomplished his purposes and was satisfied and it was known upon the plantation that he had been playing the paramour to the wife of another negro man [[strikethrough]] servant [[/strikethrough]] upon the plantation. These facts were well understood & was the topic of conversation on the place by all the negroes at the time and