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had been continued until Monday 8 a.m. I then asked him whether he had arrested Zall, when he said he had and to my further question, whether he had imprisoned him, as his official  brother had done the negro, he said he had not; I asked him when he had made the arrest and was answered "this morning". To my enquiry why he had not arrested him yesterday, he answered that he had not received the warrant until this morning. I went at once to the Recorder's Office (the same room as the Mayor's Office), and asked the Clerk when the warrant for the arrest of Zall had been issued, and was answered yesterday at 9 a.m. I desired him to verify his answer, when he turned to the warrant and found it endorsed "Came to hand this 21st day of Sept. and executed next day" (!!). I said nothing of the slight discrepancy between the verbal statement and official endorsement of this worthy officer, but called the attention of the Judge (Recorder) to the fact that the arrest had been purposely deferred over night and that I had succeeded in the chief object of my complaint, which was to see whether this man notoriously guilty of extensive depredation upon public property, would fare like the poor negro who had committed only a petty tresspass of doubtful construction, and that it was very apparent that the officer of this court had modes of proceeding adapted to different colours; when the Chief Marshall, Westerlege asked me if I would extend to a negro the same confidence and the same treatment as to a white man, when I answered that, that depended entirely on the relative characters of the two; but that in this case, that question of color was not involved as two white men Messrs Grenfield & Castor offered back the negro that protested and warned the officer against the imprisonment, as the negro had only obeyed my instructions, and that I would feel agrieved by such treatment of my employe. 

After handing in a list of witnesses, which the Clerk seemed very loth to receive, and to read with great difficulty albeit my writing is not quite illegible I met on the Strand the Depy. Marshall Harry Painter and said to him in a kindly way, that I did not wish to worry the Judge or any of the