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I'll mash his head for him." I went into the house again. Shortly someone said they have arrested Bill Veney again. I went out on the aforementioned porch again. As I arrived there I heard Veney say to a white man named George Carter "you are of no account no way sir." At this Carter drew a knife and tried to reach Veney who was sitting down on the porch stoop surrounded by white men, at the same time exclaiming "I will cut your throat Sir, if you say that again Sir." The negro Veney presently sprang over the railing of the porch to the ground and stood there, among several other colored men who had been standing there looking on, to what was going on on the porch. Veney no sooner on the said: "Come on now, I'm ready for you now." No fight occurred however. I then went into the parlor again. In a few minutes it was said that a constable had got a pistol and a going to to re=arrest Veney. I saw the Constable James C. Bryant, and followed him out the house. He went with several other white men straight out for the gate the outlet of the East lawn. As he drew near the said gate, he fired his pistol at some blacks going away outside the gate. He then said "surrender, if you do not, I will shoot you." There were some three negroes in the group Bryant fired at. He then discharged his revolver again. By this last shot I was opposite to Bryant. Then some one says "that negro has a pistol." 

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