personally appears before me Dicy Brazzills[?] and makes aoth that on the night of the 14th instant she was interrupted by some men, round her house making a noise which made her uneasy. She lived in a house near union meeting house and shortly after the noise ceased at her house she heard a noise in the meeting house. she took a light & went to the meeting house for the purpose of seeing who were the person making the noise she there saw a man in the house being drunk she then Returned to her house, without seeing any person except the drunk [?] and heard the same noise again at the meeting house She also heard same person braking or puling down some vines, she then saw two men going towards the meeting house who appeared to be well dressed, in the space of one or two hours after[?] William Taylor Came to her house & Came in to warm[?] and inquired for some articles of Coopers ware, She told him she expected ^they were in the meeting house^ her[?] then went to the meeting house to search for the Coopers were, and returned verry quick and said he belived the man in the meeting was dead she then went with Taylor & a Mr. Massingale and saw a man being dead who was Richard Roberts in the same [?] he was in at the inquest from what Cause the man Came to his death this witness can not say, Sworn to before me this 15th Jny, 1825 personally appears before me William K Taylor and makes oath that on the night of the 14th of this instant he had an occasion to call at union meeting house in search of some articles of Coopersweare, which he had some reasons to suppose were in said meeting house, this deponant states he approached said meeting house with out having any light he there felt a man [?] upon the floor whom he supposed to be dead or very drunk, he went out of the house, and called upon a woman & a man, who were in a house near the meeting house they came with him with a light and on examining the body they found the man was dead, from what cause he does not know, the boddy was the dead boddy of Richard Roberts he was [?] dead with a Bullis Vine tied round his ancle and some other vine round the gearder in the house extending to the boddy the witness states the boddy lay in the same situation where it was examined by the inquest Sworn before me this 15 of January 1826 personally appears beofre me Henry Massingale and makes oath that on the evening of the 14th instant he went to sleep in union meeting house and 2, or 3, hours in the night he was awoke up from sleep by some men throwing sand in his face, he then went into the house of Dicy Crazil and again went to sleep and there remained until he was awakened by William Taylor who asked him to go with him to the meeting house to examine the boddy of a man whom he supposed was dead, he upon the request of Taylor, went to the meeting house and there saw the man dead, the boddy remained in the same situation until the inquest