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was laughed at, the fight unchecked increased; Negroes beaten whites knocked doors and the riot instituted and justice went a begging.

These men who got drunk at a Negro's hand and then turned on him giving him blows in return and because he resisted a blow from the fist of Dudley was beset by a number of whites and beaten shamefully and no doubt would have been killed on the spot had he not been fortunate enough to have escaped them as the evidence shows. These whites however were not satisfied but began kicking other Negroes who had ran up to see what the matter was and Dudley having procured a knife stabed a Negro not in the least meddling with him; in the back of the head. This no doubt caused other Negroes looking on to enter the fight.

It is generally the case in this section; that when a white man has a dificulty with a Negro and it comes

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