The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-31
The Grant Parish Prisoners.
Second Trial-TWelfth Day.
T resumed yesterday morning at 9.
Cant. Tom DOWty

was the nrst witness called. w as second
clerk on the steamboat st. Mary in March
last stopped at Colfax on the Wednesday
before the fight ; saw number of negroes
in town, about thirty or forty, the majority
of whom were armed.
DR.. Marsh left this city, witness thought,
OF the day before Easter Sunday. Witness
could not say positively that he boarded
the boat at this city, but knew that on
Easter Sunday he CDR. Marsh) was on board
the boat, and got off at Colfax Oh Monday.
Next came
Isfdore vercher.
who said he lived in Natchitoches parish,
in ClOucherville. Heard there had been a
fight in COlfax Oh Easter Sunday. Saw
Prudhomme Lemoine at church on that day.
Was with him for a great part of the day,
and saw him late In the day in Cloucher-
vile, which is ~ miles from Colfax.
| Auguste Keller
came next, and corroborated the testimony
of preceding witnesses, as to the dOings and
whereabouts Of Clement Penn during the
fight on Easter Sunday.
j. G. Marantfne
sworn. Lived within four or five hundred
yards of Colfax Courthouse. In March
and April could see movements in Colfax
very plainly. Saw the negroes drilling,
some armed and some unarmed.
| Saw the fight at Colfax from the ga llery
of his house at one time there was a ces-
satiOn in the firing for about half an hour,
after white flag had been shown from the
Courthouse window; saw two or three
advance to the Courthouse from the crowd
of whites, bearing white flag; they went
near to the Courthouse, and then witness
saw puff of smoke issue from the Court
house, and heard report from several guns
hp " faI cd nm
and firing became general.
Richard Grant
told what other witnesses had told of the
fact that Clement Penn was not in the fight
The next witness was
Capt. Jno. Mitchell.
In March and April last was captain on
the steamboat st. Mary. Remembered hav-
ing taken up DeKlyne and Capt. Wright on
the trip made to Colfax just about the time
of the fight. Left this place Saturday be-
fore the fight. Had Mr.. Marsh with him on
the same trip.
II. J. Pirth, Isaac Davis and Tom Carter
testified on behalf of Clement Penn, the
same as witnesses that came before.
JAS. Patton
was employed at Crafts store, some three
miles from ColfaX, in March and April. Left
the store with Craft, on account of the tur-
bulent spirit of the negroes. Returned
home the day after the fight, and found the
place wreck.
Saw Clement Penn at the point on the day
Of the fight, and corroborated testimony of
witnesses gave before, given on the same
subject.
Saw Levi Allen same DAYS before the fight.
He came to Crafts store and endeavOred to
get the negroes there to go with him to Col
fax. He urged them to "come and clean
ont the id rebels"
The negroes said they had no guns to fight
with, and Levi Allen said, "Come up, take
your chance; when man that has gun
gets killed, you can take it,
Saw negro guards all along the river, pac-
ing up and down.
Court took a recess of 30 minutes.
After the recess Mr.. Beckwith went into
the cross-examination of Patton, and put
him through a very ridgid course OF ques-
tions, without any result.
d.. A. Cockrell
testifid to the condition Of the country and
the perturbed state OF mind in which the
white people were. Related converse
ton with Calhoun, a witness for the State.
referre d to by him (Calhoun) on the stand
Witness stated that Calhoun had said he
could do nothing with the "mob" at Colfax,
and he was on his way to New Orleans to
get Kellogg to send up and make those mig
gers behave themselves and keep quiet.
That he Calhoun, could not 90 to COltax,
any more than other man.
Saw Hadnot at Alexandria the day after
the fight when he was wounded. John
HadnOt was with him. Witness was with
the wounded man throughout the night.
Mr. Hadn0t from the first was convinced he
was going to die, and was more so when his
Wi sa II w fo of
preaching end.
Witness was then asked by Mr.. Whitaker:
did he say anything about the manner in
which he received his wound, and if he did,
state what he said ?"
Beckwith objected, and, after considera-
bic discussion, the Court sustained the OBJ
iections, and the witness was turned over
to Mr.. Beckwith for cross-examinatiOn, at
which nothing new was ELECTED.
VIM. Graft
corroborates the testimony of Jas. Patton |
the whereabouts Of Clement |
Penn. Testimony in relation to the robbery |
of his store was excluded, because, as the
Court stated, it was not admissible unless |
traced to the people in Colfax, and did not
think the fact which Mr.. Whitaker proposed
to show, that the robbery was committed
within the lines of the negro pickets.
Ben Graft and Sala Graft
detailed the presence of Clement Penn, and
the circumstances attendant thereon, at the
point opposite Colfax.
Saw marching by the colored men in Col
fax before the fight.
Sallie Graft
resides opposite to Colfax. She saw Mr.. |
Penn on the day Of the fight he was stand
ing in the store looking across the river
where the disturbance came from.
.JOrdOe LecOur
lives in ClOntierville. He testified that |
Prudhomme LemOine on Easter Sunday (the |
lay Of the tght) went to church with his |
wife and daughter, and he saw him often
during that day.
Jack LacOur
resides in ClOutierville, he was in church |
IN Easter Sunday; saw Prudhomme Lee
moline with his brothers wife and daughter.
AdOlphe Dubois
ives in Cloutierville, went to church that
Caster Sunday with Prudhome Lemoine