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seemingly departing. I saw also Hamilton Dudley coming around in the rear of David Palmer, a colored man, Dudley held a drawn knife in his hand. Quickly after I saw Dudley pass Palmer, I saw the blood streaming down Palmers back. Dudley saw, seemingly, as he was circulating around the crowd William Glasgo coming up with a swingle-tree in his hand. Dudley immediately put his knife in his pocket without closing it and ran around the crowd, and disappeared. I then went up to the house, the row in the crowd still going on. I saw Lieut Ayres go out in the crowd and talk to the negroes. Sometime after this I came out of the house and saw a white man named James C. Bryant, said to be a constable, with a revolver in his hand and accompanied by a party of white men, going toward the gate in the rear of the house. After they got near the gate, I followed to see the cause. When I had got within 30 yards of the gate posts, I haulted. I there saw Bryant go outside the gate posts. He then fired at a party of negroes, departing. Who they were I did not know. Bryant shot twice and snaped once, but it did not discharge a third time I did not hear but two shots. I then went back and left the 
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Transcription Notes:
Swingletree is a bar used for pulling a cart of horses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swingletree