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Fasten at top. Insert extra leaves when necessary. Criminal Offences. Date October 8 Name and Race of Criminal G D C Hunter (white) Name and Race of Person Injured Ben Howard L. Oppenhuim (freedman) Nature of Offence; Statement of circumstances; Action taken by Courts and Bureau, &c., &c., Assault and battery, fined by the Bureaus in the sum of twenty dollars. Date October 8 Name and Race of Criminal J D C Hunter (white) Name and Race of Person Injured U L Joldin Nature of Offence; Statement of Circumstances; Action Taken by Courts and Bureau, &c., &c., Insulting language on street, fined by the Bureaus in the sum of ten dollars. Date October 13 Name and Race of Criminal Charles Watts (white) Name and Race of Person Injured Henry Jones (freedman) Nature of Offence; Statement of Circumstances; Action Taken by Courts and Bureau, &c., &c., Charges of murder first degree, shot the Freedman on the 12th of October and he died on the 13th of October. A squad of six men was sent out by the Bureau to arrest him, but Watts made his escape before and has not seen/heard of since. The Grand Jury was at that time in session and failed to find a bill