The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-29
The Grant Parish Prisoners.
Second Trfal-EIeyen,h Dav

Second Trial-Elevensh Day.
Business was resumed yesterday at 8
O'Clock, and Charles Register, Virginia Da-
Wis and Meekin Jones were rushed in and
rushed out again, necessarily, without hav-
ing disclosed anything very startling or very
important.
Jones, however, tried to repay the United
States for the lucrative holiday they have
given him by stating that VIM. Irwin shot
Shak White Immediately after thesurrender
of the negroes
Martha White was invited in to say that
she had seen Denis Lemone and Oscar
Gibbons in a body of armed men that came
TO her house the day after the fight. She
said it and went back to obscnrity
Dizzy Williams, one of the witnesses at the
first trial, was put in the chair. Her has
band she said was killed at Colfax. Wiea
she found his body, both legs were broken,
his head plugged" several times, and an
deed, generally speaking, he was shot all to
pieces. Witness had several conversations
with the white men and was always treated
kindly. Saw Denis and PrudhOmme Lee
moline at Colfax after the fight.
On the crOss-examination by Mr.. Whit
aker, Dizzy went back" on her testimony
Of the last trial, as to when and where she
saw the LemOines, at fearful rate, and then
departed.
E0uulc 0lDDb 0du neT say ncXJ. w men
the white men ordered her and the rest of
them said, you see those d-m s. of BIS
have run off and left you to take care of
yonrselves now, you women get ont Of here,
and not a DIN one of you will get hurt"
Saw Denis LemOine at Colfax after the
fight, on the day of the fight. He had no
gun with him. Next came
Tom johnson, specimen Of the old time
dining-rOOm servant, very gOOd-natured
man, rather old, who told his story very
his hand and his old SLOUGH hat, and with
considerable emphasis, aud seemed very
happy throughout.
"Uncle Tom" was taken prisoner, and
Jimmy Rutland set him free, because he
knew him and liked him.
Saw, he said, Oscar Gibbons, VIM. Cruik-
shank, and Denis Lemoine after he was
taken prisoner; and saw Bill Irwin in front
Of the'court-house just after the surrender,
and saw him sheet Shack White.
The crOss-examinatiOn elected nothing
new, and was interesting only in that it
showed that either Tom or the other wit
nesses were mistaken in reference to the
action Of the negroes during the fight for
all, with few if any exceptions, said that the
cOlOred men never fred from the breast
works and Thomas said they did, and also
from the court house.
Zacharias White, was another inoffensive
man with good sight, who never fired his
gun, and knew that no one else did, but
Denis Lemoine i'm the fight
There are some noticeable things about
the statements Of these observant witnesses.
They all saw the prisoners just about the
same time; just before the stampede when
they got up to "brOke away" they always
stood to look about, but no two saw the
men in the same position, and the way they
have mounted and dismounted them is a
caution to truth-loving people.
White, when eress-examined by Mr.. Ellis,
said that after he broke from the works he
went behind the courthouse, and from
thence he ran to the river, and with all his
clothes on, shoee and everything save his
coat, and even his shOt-hag and powder
horn, he swan down to Dandy Wilkins's
Landing. "A good swimmer White must be.
The landing is q mile and a half below the
courthouse.
He was told ITO get after that" and he
got.
And the Marshal heralded the approach of
Louisa Boyd, as the next witness.
Louisa saw Hadnst and Irwin at COlfax on
the evening Of the day IF the fight She
left, and the court took recess fo- thirty
minutes.
Time
was called at 1884 nothing like being accura'el and
1t 1885 Noses Hunter was on the stand telling the
jury he nothing about the question at issue and
It he had retired to make room for Harriet Gray
who it considered had done her duty to her couu
try after she had said that she the two Lemoines
the fight.
Beckwith announced that he here
Rested the Case
for the prosecution with the understanding that if
certain witness who was expected arrived, he would
have the right to introduce him.
Mr. Whitaker then arose to
Lay che Case
for the defense. After few opening remarks he pro-
ceeded to business He said =" These accused are
chsrged with banding and conspiring together to &C
direct your attention TO the indictment ] do
not intend 70 address you at length on 1t, but
merely to show what the counts mean" |
Mr.. whitaker hen took up the counts in order
and explained them up to the eighth, after which he
summed them up by saying that they charged that |
there was conspiracy for the purp 'ses specified
The rest of the charged that in carrying
tie object of this conspiracy, the accused killed Alex
ander Tnghman. When conspiracy IL proven, the |
punishment is for that but, IT, in carrying out the
object, murder is committed, then the punishment
for the conspiracy is the same as tor murder. The
punishment, however, is not for the killing, but for
the conspiracy.
To and these men guilty you must have proof that
they banded and conspred together for she precise
objects set forth in the Indictment.
He then proceeded to state what the defense pro-
posed to prove He started It the inception of the
He said in Grant parish in 1872 there
two tickets in the field, two sets of candidates. The
majority Of voters eexpect to show cast their votes
in favor of the Con- ervative candidates. Returns
weie made by the Board, and Warmoth issued com
missions, Governor to those elected Subsequent
y another Board without retu ms known as the
Roard declared the other men elected and
Kellogg issued commissions to them. The officers,
however. commissioned by Warmoth. discharged their
duties officers Of the State and doing when
the other commissions were issued
Confusion l.
having arisen account Of the two sets Of officers
being commissioner, the good people OF the parish,
With view of adjustment, called on Kellogg Mr..
Whitaker then related Kellogg's style Of doing bust
ness tending peace and pictured the result a. the
occupation of oax by the negroes, and the battle
hat followed, all which he would show to be truly
testimony. He then related how
Ward. Register and Brantley. Levi Allen and Flowers
induced and persuaded, and even iEtimi
lated the negroes TO assemble at Coiax and Of their
violent 1oings there. How they drill ed and parade
he town. and how the three men. Ward Register
nd Brantley, with the other two. after raising the
far |