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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS 2nd SUB-DISTRICT, VIRGINIA,
Petersburg, Va October 17th 1868.

Colonel:-
The bearer of this, S. Parham, alleges that while passing the house of Armistead Blick, in Dinwiddie, in company with Becker Reed, colored, on saturday, the 3rd [[?]]. Blick - white. - who had a grudge against Reed, came out with a gun and deliberately shot him in the head. Not a word passed between the assassin and Reed. He was shot with slugs in the forehead. It is usual in these chivalric communities when a "nigger" is killed or assaulted no arrest was made until the assassins escaped. The farce of issuing a warrant was gone through with, but no officer would serve it. Unless an example is made of some of these cases by military law. I fear crime will rapidly increase.

Col. T.F. Dunn
Military Coms

Very Respectfully Yours. 
(signed) J R. Stone. 
Sub Asst Coms.

A true copy.
J R Stone
Sub Asst Coms