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the boy Gearing arrested, and swore the peace, the Magistrate binding Gearing to keep the peace - if not having been proven that he committed, or threatened to commit, any overt act

2nd Alexander Props vs Taylor Dunlap and Robert Dunlap - Trial proved that the parties with the addition of Props brother Charles were working in hay when Cha's remarked to one of the White men in a laughing way that he would let the white man take a certain part of the work - at which the white man struck Charles - Robert then remarked, come work don't fight, when the remaining white man struck Robert with Pitch fork [[former?]] after some blows Robert Resisted, and came out best in the fight, where upon the whites together gave him a thrashing after tea they told their father when the old man, unable to find his slave whip, had a number of rods cut, and together the party whipped the boy for having resisted - The case after hearing before County Magistrate, in town, was dismissed, - It was difficult to get a warrant issued in the case - the white men admitted the