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there about two hours after sunrise." Between nine & ten oclock the parties pursuing suddenly made their appearance; and Hudson, approaching the Accused, pistol in hand, accosted him as follows——" Jim—you belong to me." On this the freedman darted off at a run. Hudson, but a few steps behind, pursuing, called to him to stop and immediately fired—he says "to scare him"; he did not hit: the parties were then not the length of the building—which is 16 feet-apart. The freedman still continuing, Hudson fired again, the shot passing through the pantaloon's leg of the fugitive. Again he fired, and this time the bullet passed through the right side of the man, coming out about four inches from where it entered—the powder from the pistol scorching his coat. He had not gone two hundred feet in all.
Having fallen, he was now made to rise and walk back to the tobacco house. Being questioned, of course in violent language, about the horse, he at first denied all knowledge of its loss but ultimately admitted that he had taken it, not intending however, to steal it, but merely to perform the journey, and had ridden it to about five miles back of where he was discovered, where he had turned it loose. He was next taken to Mr. Bernards house, about a mile off, where he had his wound dressed and the party then started for Franklin C.H. enroute, the horse was found in the possession of a man "Plunkett", by whom it had been picked up as a stray in the neighborhood of where the Freedman said he had abandoned it. The latter was placed on this horse.
Arriving here, about nine oclock. P.M. Mr "Thos. H. Bernard" - Presiding Justice of this County - Brother of the Wm L. Bernard on whose place the Prisoner was captured - who chanced to be in the