It was generally known that this old man voted the Democratic ticket and the negroes were down on him for it. That is what Hillary King was cursing him about.

Dodson was pretty full (of liquor.)?that's all I know about it.

see if we could see any trace from [?] to any other place where violence might have been committed ... found blood on the side walk which we traced up the side walk toward Main street to the corner of the Cookes fence ... From thence we traced blood to rear of the bar in the yard and to the rear of Wilson Cookes Store. Next to Coookes fence immediately behind Wilson Cookes store we found a brick lying loose on some rubbish with blood on it.

I have no idea at all that there was any violence in this case. The cause of death was congestion of the lungs and the effusion of blood upon the brain. . .The blood seen may have been from the nose, men frequently bleed at the nose.