The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-27
most beastly cross-examnation that have

| MI. Ellis. rising 4ulckly-Mr. BeckWlth
what was that, sir. You will please repeat
that remark Of yours. | did not quite hear
You.
Mr.. 3eckwith, without turning-I was ex-
pressing my disapproval Of your mode of
e. aiming witnesses.
MIR. Marr-(who was sitting near Mr.
Beckwith.) He used the word beastly, that
is what it was, beastly.
Mr.. Ellis-Did you, Mr.. Beckwith, apply
the term beastly to this examination
Mr.. Beckwith-It was rather hard term,
I'll confess. did not mean it.
Mr.. Elis-I asked you, sir, if you applied
the term beastly to this examination
Mr.. Beckwith, rising for the first time,
said that he retracted it; that he had made
use of the word, but that he was angry
when he did; that had he not been so he
would not have used it. He tried in all
cases to treat opposing counsel as gentle
men should be treated.
Judge Woods called the gentlemen to
ORDER and told them the controversy must
90 no further.
Mr.. Ellis-Your Honor, beg your par
don. (TO Mr.. Beckwith.) l want you, Mr..
Beckwith, TO understand that such language
is not to be used again in connection with
me.
The witness was allowed to retire, and the
Court took a recess for 80 minutes.
When the 30 minutes had elapsed by the
watch. the Court reassembled.
| sarah Smith
a very old, very little and very black
woman, was placed on the stand. All she
said was that, during the whole of the dis
turbahce in the parish, she was in a terrible
state of fear; that her horse was taken by
some party unknown; and that her corn
was taken by a number Of men, among
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Denis Lemoine; that her son, Kit Smith,
was killed at Coltax: that she saw his body
| there, and that was all.
| The result of the crOss-eXaminatiOn was
the complete muddling" Of the witness
and jury
The next witness put forward was
| Maria Carri,r.
Her testimony was unimportant. She
saw great many dead men at Coltax, and
among them Aleck Tilghman.
| Mary Brandon
was placed on the stand She said she saw
the dead body of her husband and that of
Tilghman at Colfax after the fight, and
| then retired.
took her turn. She saw. a lot Of men on
horseback chasing colored men. That was
her story. No questions by defense.
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followed. She had seen armed bodies of
recognized, bnt the names of the prisoners
she did not mention She retired. No
questions by defense.
Next came
| Sophia Reid.
Her husband was killed during the fight at
Colfax. She was in town during and after
| the fight saw the two Lemoines at Colfax
after the ARRAY.
| Lydia Hunter
came next: recognized Denis Lemoine in a
body Of armed men that passed her house
going in direction from COlfax.
| Dolly Hunter
rode out in a red sacque; was invited to the
stand. Her brother was killed in the fight
saw Mr.. Nash when at Smithfield quarters,
and he told Levi Allen that ne would give
the women and children thirty minutes 20
leave; saw in the body of armed men Mr..
Nash d. and p. Lemoine, A. Given, William
Irwin, John Hadnot and others.
The cross-examination elected nothing.
Sallie Kmble came on in her order. Saw
d. and P. Lemoine and Oscar Gibbons at
COlfaX after the fight. Named a number of
dead men, and then was turned over to the
defense.
Mr.. Whitaker took her in hand, and she
got that part Of her tale relating to the
Lemoines and Gibbons, and how and where
she saw them considerably mixed, and left
very angry.
| Hannah Fredericks
took her place. Was At Colfax on the day
after the fight : saw a number of men dead
named a number of men dead: named a num-
Der Of them did not see Aleck Tilghman.
Cros>examined by Mr.. Marr.-Was at her
fathers house, below Cuny's Point, the day
before the fight. A crowd Of men came there
from the direction of Colfax. They asked
for water, received it, disturbed no one, and
then started on their return for Cofax. Ali
this took place after the fight. When they
got back to COlfaX, as she supposed, the
courthouse was set on fire. She saw the
fire.
Dorcas Pfttman
had boy killed at Colfax; saw his body
there, and that is all she knew. No cross
| examination
Phillis Randolph
had husband killed at the fight: saw his
body: did not notice where he was shot
saw the body of 'Tilghman ; did notice how
he was shot he was shot in the head, and
nearly all over. No cross-examination.
| Lydia Bounce
was placed on the stand to be looked at
She had heard there had been a fight. and
that comprised the sum total Of her knowl-
edge.
| Lydia Randolph
next came to time.
| Was at Colfax the day after the fight.
Saw Dennis Lemoine there. Her husband
was killed.
He left home to 60 to Colfax, on Sunday
morning, and was killed on his way there.
Cross-examined by Mr. Marr-Did not see
the body Of her husband until Monday
morning. 1t was near the courthouse, not
half mile away. BY way of variety,
Beckwith run in a man named
Peter Fields.
| He told the same old story, of which those
who are compelled to hear it are thoroughly
tired, but changed it just the least by say
ing that he was not in the breast works, but
recognized Messrs. Cruikshank, Hadnot,
Hickman and Irwin, among the fighting
men OF the whites.
| Cross-examlned by Mr.. Wh;taker-He
said he went to CoIfax to tell Ward that
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