fired the first shot and immediately I heard another shot,
I suppose from Brann, and almost simultaneously a second
shot from Davis. As the latter fired the first shot Ward
jumped and grabbed the muzzle of Davis' gun. He let
go as the shot was fired. He did not have a gun. I
backed away from the door. The shooting was thick and
fast. Davis fell back at the door of French's as Brann
fired the last shot and his gun dropped from his grasp.
John Williams, who appeared quickly, grabbed it, and
screening himself with the door-facing of the cigar store,
tried twice to shoot it and then somebody grabbed him."


W. W. Dugger, employed in the feed store of J. P.
Nichols, on North Second Street, said:

"I was talking with Policeman Sam Hall at the alley
next to the Cotton Belt ticket office when the first shot
was fired. We were close to the scene. I glanced
instantly in that direction and saw Tom Davis with a
smoking pistol in his hand. At the same time I saw
Brann turn around and face Davis, from whom he appeared
to be distant about fifteen feet, I should judge.
He fired and fired again almost at the same time. In the
meantime, the man with Brann, whom I learned afterward
was Ward, had rushed up and caught Davis and it
seemed as if he struggled with him a moment. When
Brann fired a second shot, Davis fell. Ward had turned
him loose at this time. Davis rolled over and over on
the sidewalk and fired, I think, two shots while he was