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who has been beaten by the wife of John Foster, while being held by the latter; & a part of her things returned for an alleged debt, after she had been turned off. On her applying to a Magistrate for a warrant to recover her effects she was told to return the next day; but in the interim, Foster, it is presumed learning of her purpose, through the magistrate, sent for & told her to remove her things. She has now a Lawyer employed to bring suit for damages on account of the beating.
I at the same time spoke of another woman, Matilda Francis, who had sometime before been also beaten by Foster, & who should have appeared before the Grand Jury in October, but failed to do so. She states that she was persuaded not to by several white persons, who told her that Foster would "cost" her & she would have to pay heavy costs &c. I have advised her to go before the next Grand Jury in March.
I also in my last month's Report stated that since the 17th August to that time not one colored person had been apprehended on a charge of stealing. There was, I have since learned, a lad arrested in November, for Petty Larceny, and bound over to appear for trial before the Grand Jury term