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discharge my duty to omit calling to your notice the fact "that" Big Thicket in said county is infested with a gang of cold blooded murderers, who conceal themselves or are concealed in day from arrest. The fear entertained of these murderers is one cause why good citizens are afraid to act or express themselves, any given move to the the bad men of the country who uphold and inform those murderers of what is going on. One of these desperadoes to do the shooting accompanied the gang that thus heated, until daylight drove him to the woods. My failure to reach my plantation is all that saved my life. They called them 2 hours before day, Gilbert at their head, as before stated to do this execution. 

Yours obediently 
M.H. Goddin

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