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(MURDER OF A FREE MAN OF COLOR)

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(MURDER OF A FREE MAN OF COLOR)
A most unusual pairing of documents concerning the murder case of the State of Indiana vs. Samuel Mead, 5pp. total, folio, Switzerland Co., Indiana, 1857. Included is the grand jury's manuscript indictment of Mead, charging that he had discharged a gun at "…a certain negro man whose name is to the grand jurors unknown…", hitting the unfortunate in the stomach area and killing him immediately. Along with the partly-printed order to the Sheriff of Switzerland County instructing him to arrest Mead to answer "...an Indictment for Murder…" Fine.