DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey

CHAPTER XX
The doctor acted as his own lawyer, and
the pock-marked man, whose name was
Grimes, as the lawyer agin us. You could
see that crowd had made up its mind before-hand,
and was only giving us what they called a trial to
satisfy their own conscience. But the fight was betwixt
Grimes and Doctor Kirby the hull way through.
One witness was a feller that had been in the hotel
at Cottonville the night we struck that place. We
had drunk some of his licker.
"This man admitted himself that he was here to
turn the niggers white," said the witness.
Doctor Kirby had told 'em what kind of medicine
he was selling. We both remembered it. We both
had to admit it.
The next witness was the feller that run the
tavern at Bairdstown. He had with him, fur proof,
a bottle of the stuff we had brought with us. He
told how we had went away and left it there that
very morning.
Another witness told of seeing the doctor talking
in the road to that there nigger bishop. Which any
one could of seen it easy enough, fur they wasn't
nothing secret about it. We had met him by accident.
But you could see it made agin us.
Another witness says he lives not fur from that
Big Bethel church. He says he has noticed the
niggers was worked up about something fur several
days. They are keeping the cause of it secret. He
went over to Big Bethel church the night before, he
said, and he listened outside one of the windows to
find out what kind of doctrine that crazy bishop was