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James Thompson
Brvt Lieut Col. U.S.A. [[/left margin]]

State of Tennessee
Davidson County

Personally appeared before me Gilbert Aiken (Col'd) who being duly sworn deposes and says:

That he is a resident of Columbia Maury County State of Tenn, that he has seen on the night of the 15th inst a large body of men in disguise who went to the houses of Thomas Kelly, Thomas Jordan, Bryan Bailey and Wash Harrison took them from their homes and carried them off - that these disguised men left words, that if he (Gilbert Aiken) did not leave Columbia soon they would hang him - that Bryan Bailey, and Wash Harrison returned the same night, but that Thos. Kelly and Thomas Jordan had not returned up to the hour he left Columbia. That it was generally believed that they had been killed.

Furthermore says that these disguised parties known under the name of the KuKlux Klan, threatened to kill every colored man in the Country