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Before me personally appeared the undersigned John Handy and being duly sworn deposes as follows My name is John Handy I am a discharged soldier I live in the city of Memphis Tenn in the portion of the city called Chelsea. On the 3d day of May 1866 four men attacked me. I was going home from my work. I ran into my house. they broke in the door caught and commenced beating me over the head with a pistol. they then pulled me out of the house, two of them held me while one tried to knock me in the head with an axe - one who was near by shot me through the leg. his name is Jerry Ryan he lives at the Corner of Olden & third Streets. Jim Savage (col'd) knows the man well. Another colored man named Tim knows the man, and I think saw him shoot me. I saw one of them knock a boy named Joe Davis aged about 13 yrs in the head with his pistol the boy is in a very bad condition now. John his x mark Handy