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[[seal]] Star of Texas [[/seal]]

State of Texas,
Executive Department;
Austin March 5 1867[[strikethrough]] 4 [[/strikethrough]]

Maj'r Genl. Griffin
Commdg M.D.T.
& Asst.  Com'r. R F. & A. L.

General;

For your information I enclose you the response of the County Atty of Travis County to inquiries made by me in reference to the freedmen Edwin Parsons and Mat Hewlin one of whom was wounded and the other killed and reported to you by Capt Porter from this place on the 18th December last.

You will observe, General, that the Civil authorities have done their duty in these cases.

I am familiar with all the facts in regard to the murderers of Hewlin.  They are noted robbers and murderers, and through my exertions aided by the Sheriff, Mr Timpleman of this county, in addition to the offence already named, are also confined for participation in the murder and robbery of Judge Doyle of Hill County.

It was given out that Judge Doyle and his son were murdered and robbed because they were Union men - when nothing could be further from the truth.  The band who murdered them, of whom the two in the jail of this place are a part, are notorious scoundrels who have been fugitives from justice