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George Mahoney, colored, states, June 29th 1867, in the evening, went to a house kept by Liz Ridgely, about a mile N.W. from Fort Whipple with a woman named Linn Myers, Wm Blackwell and a woman named Ellen Gaither Brooks were along, little before we got to the house we met Jim Becket who said, "Where are you all going? Seeing Linn, he said, "Linn you are the one I want to see", she said, "George, don't let him hit me". I supposed they had had some fuse, I said don't hit her, Jim Becket said, "I don't intend to, all I want is for her to give me some satisfaction," I said "let me carry her to the house as I promised to do, and then you can talk to her as much as you choose, Becket said, "let her talk to me here, she would not let go of me, saying, "don't go away George, cause he might hit me, in the meantime [[?]] come up and said, "Get off this corn, you black sons of b-hes! Someone said, "We ain't on anybody's corn," [[?]] repeated his words threatening to shoot, and pulling his revolver, then Griffin Burke, the man who got killed, took me up to the house, leaving the rest of the party there, when I went in the house, Charles parker was sitting at the table eating his supper, and Liz Ridgely's 

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*in the meantime [[?]] come up and said, looks like a name?? - may be "Veitch"