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of them, and this is the only provocation that can be proven, for the unmerciful beating administered by Suit.  After being beaten, Sidney Carter by the advice of her friends, who comprise some of the most respectable citizens of the village, came to Washington and made a complaint.
   
A request was sent to Lieut. Ball Comdg. the guard then, asking that she be protected.  When that was received, she had already been arrested on the complaint of Suit, who make oath that she had threatened to burn his house.  She was released by Lieut. Ball but afterward on the order of the Genl Comdg, the military department was remanded to the civil authorities by which she was committed to jail where she is now confined, while her two children are dependent upon charity for their support.
   
Sidney Carter was an inmate of the contraband camp at Masons Island, and went to Bladensburg about a year since by the advice of Lt. Col. Greene, Chief Quartermaster, then in charge of the camps about Washington.