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their doors and windows, and stay in their houses, which order was enforced by the indiscriminate firing of pistols through the streets. My opinion is that the murderers were young men belonging to the town of Franklin, consequently were anxious to keep the streets clear that they might not be recognized. We found that the letter purporting to have been written by Israel Brown of Nashville to John Nolin of Franklin, implicating Bierfield in the Killing of Ezell was a forgery, that it never went through the Post Office, but was manufactured at Franklin for the purpose of justifying the killing of Bierfield. John Nolin says that Charles Marshall / Agent at the Franklin Depot, brought him a letter, that he gave it to Mr Kennedy to read for him, that Kennedy did not read it but put it in his pocket saying he would read it when he had leisure. Nolin further says that he never knew any man by the name of Israel Brown, white or colored. I saw Mr Kennedy who says that Nolin handled him a letter to read, that he opened it and read one or two lines, never read the whole letter, never said the signature, does not