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County Frederick S.S.
Lucy Ford, deposes and says, I am the mother of Bob Fletcher, he is two months over five years old.  On last Sunday (June 7th) in the evening I was sitting in the house and my child Bob came running in followed by Mr Arthur Latham.  He had a stick in his hand, the stick was cut to burn in a fire place.  I took hold of the child and Latham dragged him away from me and beat him until the stick was all used up, and broken.  He then took hold of the child by the hair on the head and lifted him from the ground.  The child was hollering all the time.  Latham told me to take care or he would give it to me too.  To day I had a warrant out against Latham, and a hearing was had before Mr Sam Atwell.  Mr Latham admitted at the trial that he beat the child, but yet nothing was

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