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understand, have positively forbidden the freedmen in their employ, to send their children to school. Men who it is believed, please mark, it is believed, I mean who are suspected, were concerned in inflicting capital punishment, without judge or jury, I should say in perpetrating the foul murder, by hanging, of the Freedman Ephraim, near Hamburg Station about the 1st of Jan. last whose body was found from 4 to 6 weeks thereafter, with a rope around the neck, the feet just touching the ground & which remained there about 5 weeks longer until I procured an appeal to be made to the civil authorities & then nothing done for still another week, until I threatened to make a statement of facts to the agt of Freeds Bur. at Selma. When a move was made an request held, the body buried & of course, no facts elicited.