W. R. Fletcher sworn says as soon as Will Boan told me of the boys in the fire I went & pulled them out. One of the boys were lying on his stomach & the other one on his side. I believe they are Joe Cunningham's sons
Jas Griffith sworn says Will Bran came & told me that he found two boys in his brush heap that he was burning up. I came & saw two negro boys lying dead & badly burnt where the brush heap had burned down he says his family told him that two colored boys come in the direction pf where the burnt over were found in
Jonas Miller sworn say Joe Cunningham gave one of his sons to me to say as long as the bots wanted to. And on last Thursday the 17th day of March the boy left. I searched for him that night but failed to find him . . . I never saw that boy any more until this morning I saw the burnt bodys of two colored boys. I believe the smallest is the body of the boy I had staying with me. . .
Dr. R. P. Willens being duly sworn says that he has carefully examined the dead bodies of the two Cunningham boys & that he find no marks of violence on their bodies except the chaired condition caused by fire & and thinks they died from the effects of cold during last Friday outside