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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [[/stamp]]

husbands."  The P. Marshal then told his men to tie his hands before him.  They then tied his hands and "bucked him".  They set him on the floor, stretched his hands below his knees, ran a broom handle through between his knees and elbows and sawed it off.  Two soldiers brought him out on the side walk on Main St, rolled him about quick two or three times, then rolled him over on his side, so that he could not stir.  One of the soldiers went across the street, and took a colored man and made him go across the street, and turn Scott on each side and hit him five licks with a piece of the coffin.  One of the soldiers said if he did not hit him harder, he would "buck" and gag him.  He then hit him five licks