Testimony of Robert C. Melton Witness Sworn Says: On Monday morning 17th Just sometime before day, I was lying in the bed awake. I heard some body tramping about the house, the dog was barking at some person and there was a gun fired. Father and myself jumped up and ran to the door and Father said shoot him again. Father and myself then jumped into the yard, as soon as we got into the some person commenced firing across the [?????] at us Father then went into the lane and tried to take a gun or stick from one of the men. He then came back to the house and said he was shot he (the deceased) there lay down and the bed and said he was going to die. I examined the wound the next morning and found two one in the breast and one in the hip think he was wounded in the hip before he got into the lane, every time the men would shoot some of them would say "fetch him down" (Pistol exhibited) Witness say he found the Pistol in front of the house near the gate, where the men were shooting. found the Pistol about day Brake. I saw six or seven men in the lane they fired a good many times, did not Know any of them some of the men were disguised think some of the men were black. The men hitched there horses near the house Saw where that had stamped about the next morning the deceased had a bayonet in his hand where he went out the door did not see him strike at any of them with the bayonet. Robert C. Melton