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named Bill Warren, who was a witness for Etheridge had a warrant issued for Hopes arrest on charge of stealing Seventy five dollars from him. Nearly all the Freedmen on the place say that Warren was never known to have that amount of money at any one time and that he was indused by Etheridge to make the Affidavit before the Justice of the Peace. Hope was taken befor a Justice of the Peace and commited to jail upon the charge of Theft and his Horse was turned over to Etheridge. Hope was commited to Jail about the last of September, 1866 he remained in Jail a short time when a man (name unknown at present) gave Bond for the appearance of Hope at court with the understanding that Hope was to work for him but he is not paying him any thing for his work and does not give him any clothes and he does not have clothes enough to keep him comfortable and yet this same man told me Hope was as good a hand as he could wish to have and he did not believe him guilty of the charge of theft. I have gave you a correct statement of the facts in the case as I have learned them at different times during the last four months. I would further state the store at which the articles charged against