Report of the Joint select committee appointed to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, so far as regards the execution of laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States and Testimony taken.

ALABAMA-SUB-COMMITTEE. 1931
Question. Tuesday night?
Answer. Yes, sir; not all night. We staid there and went fox-hunting, as I related
to you.
Question. How long did you stay at your mother's? You didn't fox-hunt there?
Answer. We staid there; we left there after dark-about good dark.
Question. Where did you get your breakfast next morning?
Answer. At Dunn's, Wednesday morning.
Question. About what time?
Answer. I reckon it was between 8 and 9 o'clock; supposed to be about that time.
They had finished eating when we got there.
Question. What time did you get home from there?
Answer. I don't know; it was tolerably late. I left there, I don't know exactly what
time.
Question. Did you leave Dunn's soon after you got your breakfast?
Answer. I staid there about an hour or longer.
Question. And you got home in the afternoon of that day?
Answer. No, sir; I got home just before dinner.
Question. And you went to work the balance of the day?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. What gait did you ride in fox-hunting-a walk?
Answer. Sometimes in a walk, sometimes a trot, and sometimes in a lope.
Question. And on the drive the same way?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. How did you ride then?
Answer. Well, when we drive, we drive to our stand, and hitch our horses, and wait
till the driver comes through with the dogs.
Question. Were you a driver or a stand that day?
Answer. A stander.
Question. You rode the same mule from 4 o'clock Tuesday morning until you went
home Wednesday evening?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. You say you staid at home Wednesday night?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. What did you do Thursday?
Answer. What did I do Thursday?
Question. Yes.
Answer. [A pause.] I didn't do anything Thursday.
Question. Did you stay at home?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. Where did you go?
Answer. I went up to Major Sample's.
Question. Whom did you see at Major Sample's?
Answer. Saw Bill; I saw the two sons.
Question. Where did you go from there?
Answer. I came back home.
Question. That night?
Answer. No; we staid all night there.
Question. What did you do next day?
Answier. I came back home.
Question. What time did you get home?
Answer. It was a sort of drizzling rain; I don't know what time it was; it was along
late in the day.
Question. Did you stay all night at home that night?
Answer. Let me see, now; when was that?
Question. It was the night after you were at Samplers. Did you stay at home the
next night after you were at Sample's?
Answer. To-day is Saturday, isn't it?
Question. Yes; but where did you stay the next night after you were at Sample's?
Answer. We came on up here then. I left home yesterday evening, and came from
there here.
Question. You got home from Sample's late in the day, yesterday?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. You left immediately to come here?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Where does Dunn live?
Answer. He lives about a quarter or a half mile of the cross-roads.
Question. Where do the cross-roads run to?
Answer. It is between Tompkinsville and De Sotoville.
Question. Do you know Charles Bran?
Answer. Yes, sir.