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which was to be held on his body the following morning August 12th, 1868.

It was about 1/2 an hour from sun down, when we arrived at Mr Chatmans and I immediately commenced taking affidavits

I found that the wounded man, was a colored man named Anderson Hill, his affidavit is numbered "1" and is enclosed herewith, the information received therefrom is briefly as follows, He and Henry Clay another colored man were wagoning for Mr Chatman Anderson has lost a yoke of Steers and on Monday was hunting for them in company with Henry Clay when he met two young white men with the steers.  The two white men were bringing the steers to Anderson in order to get [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a reward - On reference to the affidavit it will be seen that there was considerable bickering between the white men and Anderson about what pay the white men were to recure and when it was to be paid.  Anderson did not know the names of the white men, but gave a pretty full description of them; describing one to be dark the other fair, while talking about their pay the white men several times drew their revolvers and finally after whispering together the dark man rode up to Anderson and the light one to Henry Clay, and shortly afterwards while Anderson back was turned towards the dark man the latter shot him twice in the left shoulder.  Anderson rode about 100 yards and then fell from his horse, he ran about 1/2 a mile and then heard two other shots and looking back saw one of the white men get off his horse and examine something on