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Before me personally appeared the undersigned Margaret McGhee and being duly sworn deposes as follows:
  
I live in the same home that Solomon Picket, colored lives in. On the night of the 1st of May 1866 during the riot in the City of Memphis, I heard a number of persons coming to the house in a very disorderly and boistrous manner. I closed my door to keep them from coming into my room. I heard them go into the room of Solomon Picket, and said get up you son of a bitch and could hear them beating him. They fired three shots in the yard after I heard them taking him out but do not whether they shot him or not. He had just come from his work about half an hour before and had not left the house since he came home. I do not know who the parties were, but know they had no cause or provocation to disturb or molest him.
(Sgd) Margaret her X mark McGhee
Subscribed and Sworn to before