Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Letters Received, Entered in Register 13, T290 – T397
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him; that he arrested Rooks and a trial was ordered on the 20" of September. On the night before the trial a party of masked men event to the house of Irvin and shot at him again, and told him if he appeared as a witness against Rooks then would kill him. Since, Irvin has disappeared and his whereabouts are not known, and he is of the opinion that he has been killed.
That on the 14th of Sept. 1868., he arrested Leon Woods, charged with horse-stealing and being one of the party that committed the above outrage; the he was followed by Sam'l Evans, and Richards; that they attempted to rescue the prisoner and would have done as, had it not been near the Rail Road; that he stopped the cars and got aboard in time to save himself.
He also states that he has known Burton Winburn
[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
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