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this woman went out and asked him what he was doing there at that time of night, in a short time he entered the kitchen bringing with him a tin bucket or firkin full of lard, the tin answering in description to the two which had een take from McGehee's. that the next morning one of the women told one of the daughters of Mr. Thackston of the fact that the defendant had brought this lard there. And Mrs. Thackston hearing of it said that it should not remain there that she was satisfied that it had been stolen, and should not stay there. that the defendant the next day came to see Mrs. Morton, the daughter of Thackston he having previously had some conversation with her as to his wifes living with her for the ensuing year, and when he saw her, asked her to take care of the lard for him; this she declined doing. He then offered to give her one half of it, if she would take care of the other for him, this she also declined and told him that she would have nothing to do with it, that he must carry it away from there at once. that the prisoner said he was afraid to carry it away then, that there were too many people there, and some one might see him. but that he would come for it at night. that several nights afterwards he did come and carried it away in the night time. putting it on his head, which was the manner in which he was carrying it when he arrived at the kitchen with it. The knowledge of these facts, which were distinctly proved by Mrs. Morton and the two negro women, who occupied the kitchen, did not come to the knowledge of McGehee for several months after they occurred, and no further trace of the lard has been discovered that the prisoner is a freed man who lived at