English prosecuted the negro, and on Feb.

9, before a local Justice, ex-Sheriff Wiseman, he got a judgment for $100.

On the date stated, during a casual meeting, hot words grew into an altercation, and Col.

English shot the negro.
Mathis was a powerful man.

English is a cripple, being lame in a leg from a wound received in the Mexican war.
"A trial was had before a preliminary court recently, Col.