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learned the facts as stated by policeman Murphy, who exhibited to me the pistol.

I told him to hold the pistol in his possession until I could farther investigate the affair; I then visited Sam Bryant's house, near where Jones had been shot, I explained to the said Bryant what his duty was, if he knew who shot Jones. Bryant replied that he did not know of his own personal knowledge, who it was, but that Ella and Margaret Smith both told him the evening before that Jack Wrenn shot the man Peyton Jones. I then requested Mr. Bryant to go with me to where the girls Ella Smith and Margaret Smith lived. He did so, I saw them, when they related to me from the matter occurred, that Wrenn came up, struck Jones over the head with a pistol, that Jones ran and Wrenn then shot him, and that they saw Jones fall. I have heard these witnesses repeat this evidence two or three times and they have never deviated a sentence from the evidence given to me, the next morning after Wrenn had shot Jones.

It's useless for us to try and convict a white man, if he be Conser-

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