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R.S. Wheat, white, being duly sworn "It was sometime in the spring of 1866. I heard a pistol discharged three times about 150 yards from where I was, at the time I went to ascertain the cause, and sat down at Mr. Boyd's store at Wheatville. Dr Beale came from where he had had the difficulty with Nelson, the plaintiff, and swore that he had tried to kill the damned rascal, had shot at him and intended to kill him. He then went to his house and got a bowie knife and came with the pistol that he had used and the knife in his hands, still swearing that he intended to kill Nelson. Dr. Beale passed by where I was sitting and went on to my store. He was stopped by a man by the name of Wright about 15 or so steps from my store door. Beale remarked to Wright that any man that would protect a free negro was no better than a negro, and presented his pistol at Wright. Mr. Wright told him that he was a coward and told him to shoot, but he did not. During this time Nelson had run out of the back door of my store and hid in the brush.

Sworn to before me at Mount Pleasant, Texas, October 28th 1867.
S.H. Starr
Maj. 6th Cav. Bvt. Col USA
S.A.C.

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