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Bureau of R.F.& A.L,
Brinham, Texas June 20th.66

Col. Wm A Sinclair,
A.A G.
I think it proper to make the following statement in regard to Mr Wm A Jackson now in confinement at Houston, charged, or, rather, from the best evidence we could at this time obtain, and which I think justified his arrest, very strongly suspicioned of being one of the party who so inhumanely and brutally murdered the freed man in this neighborhood. 
I believe the evidence cannot be obtained which would result in his conviction, or justify holding him longer in confinement. I am by no means convinced or satisfied that he is innocent but make this statement in view of this conclusion I have come