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Court was told to "clear out," what a contrast between Case No. 6, and Case No. 2. In the latter case it was the Colored man's bull that had gored the white man's ox and in the former vica versa.

We will now view the County of Charles City. One case here will suffice.

Case No. 7; a white man named Fleming Bims at a "fish fry" murdered a colored man, an invited guest, in Cold blooded murder. He was arraigned and brought to the Ear of Justice in that loyal county. On trial it was found that the white man killed the Negro. Yet what was the verdict of the Jury - 

First let us depict the scenes enacted in open court as described by an eye-witness. One of the counsel of the prisoner was in a beastly state of intoxication. he berated Colored men as only Southern men can do, and swore that no what man should be punished  for murdering negroes; one of the Jury who was also intoxicated, so far forgot his oath as to rise in the Jury box and