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. 1933
Question. Or shot at?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. Were you ever near to any place where a negro was killed at the time he
was killed?
Answer. Was I ever near where a negro was killed? Well, there was one killed up
there at De Sotoville, about within six miles.
Question. Who was that?
Answer. Let me see; I forget how long ago that has been-a year ago. I think it
was Dud Woodward.
LIVINGSTON, ALABAMA, November 3, 1871.
JAMES D. HATTER sworn and examined.
The CHAIRMAN. This witness having been called on the part of the minority, I will
ask General Blair to examine him.
By Mr. BLAIR:
Question. Doctor, state your residence, if you please.
Answer. I live near Pelham, Choctaw County.
Question. State, Mr. Hatter, if you were at Black's Bluff all night Monday night?
Answer. Yes, sir; I was there all night. I sat up with a sick friend all night.
Question. At what place were you at the bluffs?
Answer. At the warehouse.
Question. Is there any other house there?
Answer. Yes, sir; there is a house there, where Mr. Tarvin lives.
Question. You were at the warehouse?
Answer. We were at Tarvin's house, adjoining the warehouse, a few yards distant.
Question. You say you were there sitting up with a sick friend?
Answer. Yes, sir; a young man that Was with a company hunting-with a party
of us there-and was taken sick.
Question. Do you know Charles Bran and Morris Dunn?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Where do they live?
Answer. In Choctaw County. Mr. Bran is a near neighbor of mine; in about three
miles of me. Mr. Dunn in about eight miles of me.
Questil. Was either of them at Black's Bluff that night?
AnswCr. No, sir; Mr. Bran was in Marengo County.
Question. Do you know a negro by the name of Robert Fullerlove?
Answuer. Very well.
Question. Was he at Black's Bluff that night?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. Do you know where he lives?
Answer. Yes, sir; he lives within a mile of Tompkinsville.
Question. In coming from Tompkinsville to this place he would pass by Black's
Bluff?
Answer. No, sir; he would come seventeen miles out of his way to get here, coming
by Black's Bluff, and there is no road leading from Tompkinsville to Black's Bluff.
Question. Do you think it possible for a man to pass between Black's Bluff and Tompkinsville directly?
Answer. I do not, sir. I live between Tompkinsville and Black's Bluff, and I have
been raised in there; I have hunted all through it a thousand times-through the hills
and river swamps; and I would not undertake to go through there in the night under
any consideration.
Question. This man, Robert Fullerlove, said he had a subpwena to appear before this
commsnittee, and that he left homo Monday at 10 o'clock; and at 4 o'clock on Tuesday
morning he was at Black's Bluff; that the house there was lighted up; that there were
a number of men with guns sitting around, and that he stopped at the place and some
man called him by another name; that he answered to that name; and that he then
went off in the direction of this place; that Charles Bran and Morris Dunn followed
him, knocked him down, and beat him on the road. Did any such occurrence take
place? Did any negro call there that night?
Answer. No, sir. No negro came there at all. I sat up all night myself. I sat up
there five nights with n young man myself, and he died on Tuesday.
Question. On Tuesday morning?
Ans8wer. On Tuesday night about 7 o'clock.
Question. He said that he went up to the house, saw it lighted up, and that therewere
a number of gentlemen there, and one asked him, "if my name was John Down, or
Town."