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State of Kentucky
Jefferson County } Sct
The affiant John Godfried Deitz, says that he was at the house of William Brockman. Beck on the night the house of Wm Brockman was said to have been stoned by defendants. and Knows that Wm Beck, Chas Reel and Casper Winterstein, came to the house of William Beck at one o clock of said night, that he knows that said Beck did not leave his dwelling untill he went to Market at 2 1/2 o clock, that Chas Reel and Casper Winterstein left the said house of Beck at about 1 1/2 o clock, and went in the direction of their own Residences, and that they went in the opposite direction from Brockmans house, that they were accompanied by Chas Smith when they came to Becks house, who has since left this County -- and that affiant is enabled to identify the time, at which said Beck & Reel & Winterstein came to said Becks house, from Affiants having just been called up by Becks wife, to prepare sausage for Market. said Beck being a Pork Butcher.
John Gottfried Deitz
subscribed & sworn to before me by Jno G. Deitz this th Oct 1860
Wm Mix Jr N. P. J. C.
A copy Attest
O, H, Strattan c. c. c. L.
Comth
vs } copy afft
Wm Beck &c &c