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[handwritten]
Testament of Dr. CD East

[Section marked through with "X']
Having been instructed Feb 5th 1905
by ME Carow of Laurens County
SC to make an examination
of the body of J. W. Atkins [?], Dead
I do find a gun shot wound
(shotgun) involving the Superior
portion of right Region the lower
[illegible] of [illegible] was injured
[illegible] are intestim [page is torn, intestiment?]
said wounds and hereby resilting [resulting]
in death

C.D. East MD

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State South Carolina
County of Laurens
the State
V.S.

[section marked through with "X"]
Due [?] body of Lonnie Smith
Wess Workman, himlf [himself], Duly swrn [sworn] saus [says]
on the morning of the 29th of March 1905 heard
Mist Truist [?] call to my wife and said
Mist Alvin [?] was [illegible] over in John
Smith Huus [house?] burning that the baby
was crying, I ran to the house and
as I got there they had broken
the door open and yon in I went
in the baby was burning and some
man was [illegible] the baby out
we put the baby out and went to
Janna she was lying on her face
dead

Wess Workman
X his mark