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James E. Wilkens
About 12 or 1 on the morning of the 16 I heard a pistol shot on the old
field where the negroes were celebrating. I was at blacksmith's shop on Church St. near Nicholson. The crowd rushed toward the place of the shooting. Then toward a house on Church St. They caught a white man on 
Church St, corner of Calvert St. He was brought to Nicholson St. between two horsemen, one of whom had him by the hair, the other by the arm. I did not know Long, and do not recognize him as one of them. I heard pistol shots but saw nothing happen. The horsemen rode up after the crowd on foot had made a rush. One might have had him by the collar instead of the hair. When W. was first brought out from the house on Church St, no horsemen were there, they rode up and took possession of him.

N. Jones.
I was on the corner of Church and Nicholson Sts. and I was standing there at my brother's window on the 16 of April, between 12 and 1. I saw Whitehurst between two

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