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Before me personally appeared the undersigned Patzy Tulliver and being duly sworn deposes and says as follows.

My name is Patzy Tulliver, I live on South Street in the City of Memphis Tenn.  About a week before the beginning of the late riot a colored soldier was standing near where a house had been burned on South St.  A policeman said to him "that is all you are good for burning houses"

The soldier replied that he was not guilty of burning houses.  This enraged the police and he beat the soldier with his club and took him to the station house.  On the evening of the 1st of May 1866 I saw some 25 or 30 soldiers who were making a loud noise.  Some 3 or 4 policemen came up to arrest them  I saw Recorder Knighton in a buggy near by.  The police attempted to arrest the soldiers and they refused to be arrested.  Soon after shooting commenced, but I could not say which party began first.  On Sunday evening before the riot began on Tuesday, a policeman was passing near the corner of South & Main, and stumbled

Transcription Notes:
The deposed's name doesn't look like Tulliver in this document, but it is clearly that in others.