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STATEMENT OF HENERY C. GOODWIN? DEPUTY SHERIFF OF
CHOWAN COUNTY, IN REFERANCE TO THE ATTEMPTED ARREST
OF MURREL T. LANE, DESERTER.

The Sheffif and I went up the first time together and
I hired a man to go around and see if he could secure any evi-
dence concerning Mr. Lane. On our way home we stopped at Dick
Goodwin's to see if we could learn anything from him. (Dick
Goodwin in the Constable of the second township; Deputy Sheriff,
brother of the Shefiff and brother- in law of the deserter, Mur-
rell T. Lane,) and we made plans for me to go back the next
afternoon and go in the woods and make some locality about the
woods.

[indented] Q. What month and what day was it that you did this?
[indented] A. Sometime in July. And we made plans to go back
the next afternoon. When I got up to Dick's he told me he had
learned something concerning Mr. Lane. About that time his son
came out and he said he would tell more later. That afternoon
on our way up there I asked what it was he had to tell me and
he said, "I did not think my wife knew anything about Murrel,
but I now think she does". I asked why and he said, "This
morning I met Ralph (his son) with a letter addessed to Lizzie,
(murrell's sister). He took the letter and looked at it and
it was to Murrell's sister telling Murrel to be on the lookout,
that Sheriff Goodwin and Henry Goodwin were up there making plans
to catch him. Then I asked, "Did you let that letter go"? and
he said "Yes, after I read it I mailed it". Then I said, "Dick
you ought not to have done that; you ought to have kept it;
your wife would never have known better." Then we made a search
about the woods.
[indented] Q. Who was this letter to?
[Indented] A. To Lizzie Copeland, Murrell's sister, wife of
Herman Copeland.