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They then came to his house, came abruptly into my house one at the front and the other at the back door - They took from me what little money I had, and destroyed some of my furniture, after which they took him out and hung him to make him tell who in the neighborhood who had money & they hung me untill I think they thought I was dead, when I came too I was about ten steps from where they had hung me.  They then left my place and went over to my fathers again by that time my breathing law had arrived having been informed of their former visit, antisipated their intention, and as they were approaching the house between the yard gate and the house, he noticed their pistols in their hands, when he shot among them, killing one, who turned to have been a South Carolina, one of the others was wounded, whose name was Musgrove a citizen of Lincoln County.
[[strikethrough]] N [[/strikethrough]] Tom Cain Cold the person who done the shooting was arrested and put in Jail some two weeks after the Jail was broken open, at the time there was four inmates, two white and two cold, they were in different cells. Tom was taken out to the door where they asked his name, when he told them it was