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The records of the Jean Broussard trial, along with most of the judicial
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records of nineteenth-century Manchester County,
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were destroyed in a 1912 fire that killed ten people,
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including the Negro caretaker of the building where the records were kept,
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and five dogs and two horses.
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The Broussard trial took one day, actually part of a day, the trial
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itself all that morning and the jury deliberations a portion of
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the summer afternoon.
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One of the jurors was a man who had studied the law at the College of
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William and Mary where his father and grandfather had gone.
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When that man, Arthur Brindle,
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returned from college.