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on the day of the riot and fired once at him, the Constable, while in the discharge of his duties. The whole of the evidence went to show simply that Corbin did have a pistol or revolver in his hands, but not one of the witnesses could swear that they saw Corbin fire it. The constable said that he fired twice from his revolver, once in the ground, and once in the air, to scare the negroes into subjection, while he was attempting to re-arrest a negro named William Veney, who had escaped from him, and when pursued, took refuge behind John Corbin. Previous to this affair, there had been a negro cut by a white man, and considerable noise and quarreling between the Whites and the Blacks. During this, there had been threats of shooting down negros, and knocking white men in the head. So at the period of the affair between Constable Bryant and John Corbin, John did not know that Bryant was an officer, (he John having recently returned from Texas, where he had gone with his regiment and been discharged, having served 3 years in the U.S.A.) Bryant never proclaimed his office, but upon his coming up to where the negroes were, (who by the way were going home) he immediately commenced firing at William Veney. John Corbin thought Bryant was only come to shoot some one, and Bryant firing a second time,

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