[Sheriff Salisbury]
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t) r POEM Cirotoostamoos of Intorno" HAVE OF WORK fil,41,11CIFIC1411e .iDLRESSoffrIMMAD LAM SUBJECToofignoratifft••.. 1. LRMO and address of informant Sheriff Salisbury, North Matto 2. L to end time of interview Nov. 29 341 Place of interview Office 4. 14ame and address of persons if anys who put you 'in touah with informant 5. battle and eddrose of persons if any aolompanyin& you 6. Desoription of roor, snrromdines, .to. PQM a Text of lOorviow clhooditod) NAW 0 W ',ADDRESS New. 29 DATF SUBJECT.t1M.M.4111... NAYS AND ADDASS 01, INFONNANT.VMMINRITTY, North Platt? Nar. Sulisbury MA the Sheriff of Liman Go, in 1929. 114 recalls that a police offiesw went into a two story house onW. 7th Street to arrest a negro known as SIMI. Ihe negro shot offiOer Green with a sewed off shot guns killing the officer. The law surrounded the house whque the negro was. In some Ivey the negro got under the 11 -use and killed hi -self with tha sawed off shot gun with which he had killed the officer. eoeuse no rrest vic made, the colored man having killed himself rtright there is no record of this in the Sheriff office. The negro people of the town were afraid of an uprising and for thut ream. thsy all left town but oame back later. The negro killer had been around town some tt-o• The Sheriffs office served the subponeas on the men who were tired for unlawufl assembly oencerning the negro people on the day in which officer Creen lite killed awl the negro killed himself. Note. It is rumored thct offioers killed the negro rather than arrest hin as the body "so they sty. was ridtlled irith bullets0 believe this could have been true. Personally I