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Wilmington N Carolina
March 14th 1868,

Allan Rutherford
Captain 44th Infantry
Ass't. Sub. Ass't. Com'r.
4th. Sub Dist. N.C.

Captain
On or about the first of the present month A J Plummer Esq Int Rev Collector of Whitesville Columbus County N.C. Shot a woman (Colored) name Hannah Owens. The women has ten children, and the wound being a painful one, She is unable to provide for said children, and when she asked this man Plummer for aid he gave her three or four bisquits. He claims that he shot this woman accidentally and at the time when intoxicated I learn from reliable parties that they had good reason to believe that he was not so drunk and