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0364

Report of Freedpeople, who have been murdered or assaulted with intent to kill, in the Counties of Jefferson and Burke, during the year 1867 &c.

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| Name of Persons murdered or assaulted | Killed | Extent and nature of Injury | Cause of the assault | Name and color of the Offenders | Arrested | Nature of the Punishment inflicted | At large and possible whereabouts with General Remarks &c. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 

| Burke County John C. Calhoun | No | Contusion on the arm with a wiffle tree | The freedmen being to register, came home intoxicated, and after being warned to keep the peace, which he refused to do, received the wound. | James C Francis (white) | has been arrested Aug. 67 | Bound over to appear before the Sup. Court for Assault and Battery. | Defendant is now residing in New York. Prosecutors whereabouts not known. |

| Jefferson County Henry Clemenz | Yes | Shott in the breast | for seduction of a daughter of Abraham Spon | Abraham Spon (cold) | Had given himself up to the civil authorities | not guilty | At large somewhere in Jefferson County. The Petit Jury found him not guilty. |

Max Marbach
Agt BRF and AL

Transcription Notes:
wiffle tree - A whippletree, or whiffletree, is a mechanism to distribute force evenly through linkages.