It was about half past twelve o'clock. I was on my way home to dinner on the 20th of December, 1935. When I was passing Patterson's Alley entering Lenoir Street near the colored park in the 500 block something hit me. I looked around an' heard a shot. The bullet hit me before I heard the report of the pistol. When hit, I looked back an' heard it. Capt. Bruce Pool, o' the Raleigh Police force, had shot at some thief that had broken into a A&P Store an' the bullet hit me. It hit me in my left thigh above the knee. It went through my thigh, a 38 caliber bullet, an' lodged under the skin on the other side. I did not fall but stood on one foot while the blood ran from the wound. A car came by in about a half hour an' they stopped an' carried me to St. Agnes Hospital. It was not a police car. I stayed there a week. They removed the bullet, an' then I had to go to the hospital every day for a month. I have not been able to work a day since. I was working with W. A. Myatt Company when I got shot. My leg pains me now and swells up. I cannot stand on it much. I am unable to do a day's work. Can't stand up to do a day's work. The city paid me $200.00, an' paid my hospital bill.
Abraham Lincoln was all right. I think slavery was wrong because birds an' things are free an' man ought to have the same privilege.
Franklin Roosevelt is a wonderful man. Men would have starved if he hadn't helped 'em.
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| N.C. District: | No. 3 |
| Worker: | Travis Jordan |
| No. Words: | 1384 |
| Subject: | SARAH DEBRO |
| EX-SLAVE 90 YEARS | |
| Durham, N.C. | |
| Date Stamp: | "JUL 24 1937" |