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Village at the time, directed that he should be confined in jail, over the next day, it being Sunday, until Monday, when he could be regularly committed.

The next morning I requested of Mr "Giles B. Hale," the jailer, to be allowed to see the Prisoner: Mr Hale lives about two hundred feet from the prison. I was told that I could later in the day when the Doctor went to visit him; and that word should be sent me when the latter arrived. I heard nothing farther from him, however, until the next morning -the 18th- when, while temporarily absent from my office, word was sent that the Doctor was about to visit the jail: this was his first visit. I was not myself in time see the Prisoner. During the morning "Burwell Woods" the Prisoners Steph Father, who had accompanied him here, called on me, and I gathered from him many of the details of the shooting. He by my advice employed Counsel for himself for [[?]] Lawyer "Irving" who feels confident he can clear the Boy. His charge is $5000 a little later Hudson himself called on me. He said he understood that I pretended to report him. I replied that it was a part of my duties to report all such cases that came to my knowledge. He then asked if he would have to be sent to Richmond; or if he could be tried for the act by the Court Authorities: He said he thought at the time he was doing right, but it would now seem he must have committed himself. I told him that if the Court Authorities paid proper attention to the matter the military would not interfere, but if the farmer did not the latter in all likelihood would. He said he was willing to surrender himself to the Civil Authorities; and he supposed that as the shooting was done in Roanoke Co., that would likewise have to be done there.