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laid nothing & he stopped at Mosely's 15 minutes, before the scene with W.

J.W. Dozier,
I live on Church St, nearly opposite Nicholson St. About noon on the 16th April I was standing at my window, and saw a white man between two mounted men, negroes, come down Church St toward Nicholson. One of the Negroes on a gray horse cried to the crowd "you must not shoot him if you do I will shoot you". I thought they were trying to protect him, but in a barbarous way. After going up Nicholson St about 15 yds., a man in the rear on foot went up behind the white man between the horses and shot him in the back. I saw Whitehurst afterward at the coroner's inquest. At my request he was turned over and the wound was found to be in his back and the ball to have come out at his breast. I did not recognize Long. The horsemen were begging the crowd to desist. Whitehurst was bleeding from a blow on his head. Five or six minutes after I saw W. shot, I saw Curling come out from Nicholson St. into Church St. Man on gray horse had him by the collar.

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