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Office Asst. Supt of R.& F.
Vienna, Fairfax Co. Va.
March 18th 1867.

Captain - 

I have to report that I presented the case of Joseph Follin and James Strother who went to the house of Harriet Brown (freedwoman) and committed an assault and battery upon her person on the 24th of Jan. last, to the grand jury of this county, to day and that this grand jury refused to find a true bill against said Follin and Strother, notwithstanding there was positive testimony that such crime was committed.

In a precisely similar case, but in which the offence was committed by colored men upon a white man, this same

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