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furnish sufficient proof.

Through some means he obtained his release, but was subsequently arrested by Capt. Byron Porter Sub Asst. Comr. at Bastrop, and by him brought to Prairie Lea.  After he had been confined for several days, he attempted to bribe one of the Guard to allow him to make his escape; thus proving without other evidence that he was Guilty of the charges on which he was arrested.  Not succeeding in this, his next attempt was to make his escape from me - when my Company was en route for Lockhart - while I was questioning him in regard to his swindling operations: to which Charges he confessed guilt - In this as in his attempt at bribery he was unsuccessful, and paid the penalty with his life:  A life that was blackened with a long list of Crimes, rendered doubly odious, from having been committed against the simple minded of his own color.

I do not make this statement to exculpate myself from any blame that may be attached to me, but simply to show that his fate was richly merited.

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