01 us.Cua-’ard, i tho out •colored imany-oodaLitent■:eny,honeandthe ►unty d loKUAUfl AJLVknow the cow was Y/ith calf until ’after it was butohered and as soon aa ho discoveredllift officer, “If wo hrlrl ennght jro two drinking beer In an alley : would probably 1iht.c co*t you lltf much of ji fine.” .Portsmouth Daily Times: Yroir paper that was printed the 8tll ot February lias just fallen into my hands and was very mueh surprised to see the write up non-ccrniug my arrest in connection with the Stoekham case, and ask jbit kindly to please correct some of tha mistakes of your informant aft to tlio officer swooping down on me. They did -not as I war looking for them/ I had been in-tormed as to my indictment and the arrest came as no surprise to me* I had plenty of time to get away .hut did not wish to do ho as I am innocent oi the charges that have been brought agaiDBt mo,back at any time and face • t.l charge, as I will have no troubi in proving -iny innocence. Ai other thing T would call yntir a tentinn to is that I never madcm home at South Portsmouth hi Imve, 1 am proud lo nay, .mac 89me staunch friends there, as have three of the most prominei men io South Portsmouth snn m bond and could of had a doze more had j:needed them. I wf treated as aguestat Greennp i stead of a prisoner. I. was also i formed about this trouble by n friends when it first occurred ar had I wanted to hide then won havo been my time, but no, tl