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or close to the men that he could touch them with his hand he could not recognize them." John Spencer and Saml. Spencer father and brother of [[strikethrough]] Ada [[/strikethrough]] Henry Spencer swore that Henry Spencer was in the house and in bed at 1/2 past 9, at 1 c 2 A.M. and at daybreak on Friday morning Aug 28- and other witnesses confirmed this testimony and proved that others indicted were at home drunk or in other places at the time charged
As then was direct conflict between the testimony of Mr Varner and the other witnesses for the prosecution and no witness swore positively except to Henry Spencer who proved he was in another place and whose general character made it improbable he would be there at all under any circumstance, the Court discharged all the prisoners
I have instructed Mr Zincke to prosecute diligent enquiry, so as to bring the parties to justice, but as the colored witnesses are ignorant and alarmed and the entire white population of the dominant, rebel, class are in sympathy with the miscreants

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