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I certify that I recieved a warrant from Daniel Garland a magistrate through Francis Amos, a colored woman, for the arrest of William Wallace, a white man, for beating and assaulting said Francis Amos.

I arrested Wallace on the 9th day of March 1867 and brought him to trial on that day at Warsaw, Richmond Co. Va, before Justice Soloman S. Hutt and Walter Brockenbrough. Soloman S. Hutt is the chief Magistrate of Richmond Co.

Francis Amos gave her testimony first. She said that Wallace beat her over the head with a swingletree and showd the marks of said blows on her head. She said that she heard a conversation between Wallace & his father about her husband Virgil Amos. They were complaining that her husband did not do his duty as the should upon the farm. She went in and told Virgil of it and Virgil got mad and talked very loud. Wallace then went into the kitchen house and with a swingletree in hand. Virgil picked up a stick and then Francis went to go out the house when Wallace struck her with his swingletree.

Virgil next was interrogated and testified the statement of his wife to be correct and Wallace was going to get a shot gun to shoot him but his Wallace's father stopped him from doing so.

James Norman testified also the above statements to be true. James is a colored man. 

Wallace then was interrogated and

Transcription Notes:
swingletree: a crossbar pivoted in the middle, to which the traces are attached in a horse-drawn wagon or plow; a singletree.