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During the early part of March (1867) a Freedwoman living near Galveston [[?]] then on a visit to her friends, was met by two (2) white men on the public highway, and robbed of a considerable sum of money. This is but one of many such acts committed in the remote parts of the county.
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On Friday the 22d of March (1867) one Dallas Dedmond cruelly beat a Colored Woman and her two children. Hearing of this I [[strikethrough]] summoning [[/strikethrough]] summoned the woman (Pender) to my office for the purpose of laying the case before the proper authorities. On her attempting to appear as directed she was surrounded by six (6) men who threatened to hang her, and her family, if she reported the facts 

In this case I have taken no action as yet fearing these parties would execute their threats upon the Freedmen

The case of E.G. Mays vs Jonas Johnson, and the freedmen in Johnson employ, was discontinued by the Pltf
This case has excited a general interest in the community, by whom it was looked upon as a persecution inflicted