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I had informed the Mayor of my desire and intention to be present at the trial– but while absent from my office at dinner the case was tried, and decided as above stated, I called on the Mayor to obtain the facts in the case, He informed me that at the point where the difficulty occured the pavement was quite narrow and that the colored girls would not give way to allow Brokenburough to pass but walked on arm in arm– and also that she had given Brokenburough some impudence this impudence seemed to consist of her saying that she had got out of the way when she was asked by Brokenburough why she did not get out of the way–
What there was to justify the assault upon the colored man even in the eyes of an Ex Rebel Colonel I could not learn– This is a specimen of the Justice the colored people are to obtain before the civil courts– 
Although the colored people pay the same tax that the white people pay yet they are not to have the sidewalk when any of the whites deem it too narrow for two persons–
The Brokenburough above alluded to is a son of Ex Judge Brokenburough of