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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Cutting a Negro. (search)
Cutting a Negro.
--A free negro, named Thomas Hooper, living on the upper end of Seventeenth street, was severely beaten and cut in the back on Saturday night by three white men, who demanded admittance into his house upon pretence of being detectives in search of runaways and deserter — After entering the house, they commenced plundering, which caused some remonstrance from Hooper, when upon they patched into him and beat and cut him all they thought life was extinct.
Soon afterwards then and cut in the back on Saturday night by three white men, who demanded admittance into his house upon pretence of being detectives in search of runaways and deserter — After entering the house, they commenced plundering, which caused some remonstrance from Hooper, when upon they patched into him and beat and cut him all they thought life was extinct.
Soon afterwards the bogus detectives rifled Tom's bureau drawers and thank of all the valuables they possessed and then took their departur