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and about 9 o'Clock in the morning he, L, went in through John Carters grocery looking for said Carter holding a stick in his hand - and failed to find him - About 1 oClock in the day Lambert with John Kennedy and two other friends went and stood in front of John Carters (col) grocery with pistols in their hands. The Town Constable H. Smets, dispersed them about 1/2 an hour after Lambert again went over to the grocery with a stick in one hand and a pistol in the other - and stood in front looking for Cal Carter - Whillock Fields stood in Washington Rhodes (col) house and told Cal Carter (col) that Lambert (white) was coming. Lambert then shot at Willock Fields twice and then in return Fields snapped a cap in return. His pistol would not go off - immediately upon that the young white men of the town ran out of their several houses