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Jasper, Tenn Jan'y 29th, 1866.

Capt N.B. Lucas Supt BR, &c
Chattanooga, Tenn.

On Saturday evening last I received your favor of the 19th Inst, relative to the murder of Paul Evans, Freedman, said by Wm Clark in his narrative to you to have been done neither five miles of this place.  The killing took place 19 1/2 or 20 miles from this place, in Sequatchee County, north east of this, and near to where Col. J M Andersen lived at the commencement of the rebellion; and under the following circumstances, as I am well informed, indirectly by one of the Jury of Inquest, and by other Citizens of this county.  At about 8 or 9 oclock at night, (I am not informed the precise date,) some two or three weeks ago, the deceased Freedman and four or five more persons called at the Widow Gott's; and the deceased inquired who lived there.  Mrs. Gott answered that she lived there, giving her name. 
 Deceased said he had an Order from Chattanooga for her horses.  She answered that she had no horses but one, and that was an old one, and that she hoped they would not take it from