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This occurred about 8ock [[8 o'clock]] P.M—
   The ball entered the body of the Freedman below the fifth rib and passed downwarde [[downward]] severing the intestines and lodging in the abdomen.  Thompson died on the day following (Monday) between the hour of twelve and one ock M.
   Owing to the indifference and want of energy manifest on the part of the civil authorities Johnson was not arrested. On the contrary it seems that every facility was afforded Johnson to enable him to make his escape. Notwithstanding the general direction of the public pointed to Johnson as the guilty party, a citizen of the town cashed [[cached]] a disguise for him, before bank hours, and he hired a pair of fine horses at the livery stable connected with the Lexington Hotel, and a freed man was sent to drive the horses for Johnson to Goshen, (a rail road station on the Va.C.R.R. some twenty-miles from this point) and there to return the horses to the Hotel at Lexington.
    Johnson started at 1/2 of 7 or Eight ock [[8 o'clock]] in the morning (Monday) so you see it was not necessary for him to steal away, but on the contrary he was allowed to go off in good style and in broad day light — and according to all reports armed with a pair of revolvers and a bowie knife.
   When Johnson's guilt could be concealed no longer, a warrant for his arrest was placed in
 

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