The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-23
The Grant Parish Prisoners.
Second Trial-Finh Dav.

Second Trial-FiNh Day.
The court was called to order at O'Clock
Justice Bradley and Judge Woods on til
bench.
Justice Bradley said, on the motion of de
Tense to quash certain counts, that the ques
ton involved was Of too grave q nature t,
be passed upon without mature delbera
ton and consideration that could not b
given during the progress of the trial but
he said, in the event Of any one OF the &C
cused being convicted, he would hold him
self ready to come and sit with Judge Wood
and pass upon the matter, on a motion 70
arrest of Judgment.
Lucinda Mckinney was the first witnes
placed on the stand. She was the wife o
Jesse Mckinney, who was killed outside o.
Colfax. She said that crowd Of whit,
men, twelve in number, came by her house
stopped and shot her old man. who was a
work OH the fence. She recognized old Mr.
HadnOt and Messrs. Lemoine and Owens il
the crowd.
Only one man fired, and her husband fell
She did not recognize the man. Some on,
asked, Have you fetched him ?" and the
man said, Eyes, by God, I've got him
Her husband was brought to tue house o.
her mother, where he died at shutdown
She went to Mirabeau's plantation, and IT..
manned there until after the fight at Colfax.
She told tale of mothers self-sacrific-
ing spirit when she placed her eldest boy
before her knees, to protect him, and
awaited to die. She did not die, however
because the white men did not shoot.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Whitaker-Her
husband was on the outside of the fence,
between it and pile of rails, about as high
as herself. Some of the men W. re on the
outside Of the fence, bnt some of them were
inside, i'll McKinney's field. The man who
shot him was inside the field; he was in
his shirt sleeves; had on black vest.
She did not know him; she could not tell
how they got inside the field she supposed
they got through the barrow gate; she had
her eyes on them all the time, but said she
did not see them open the gate; she did not
see them go through the gate.
After shooting her husband the men re-
manned about two hours, and then moved
in the direction of COlfax past her door.
She did not see the man who shot her hus-
band with those that went to Colfax.
Hadnot, Lemoine, Givens and Irwin were
with them. There were twelve in ALL
On the day before be was killed he went
up to COlfax but came back the same day.
He went to ColfaX because some one called
on him to 60, for the white folks We're
fighting at Colfax. She heard them call on
Kit Smith to 60 also. Did not know whether
Kit Smith went to COlfaX.
This was direct contradiction of her
last testimony, as she stated on the last trial
that Smith went up with Mckinney. Her
husband left the house the day he was
killed, and she understood h. had been
to COlfax.
There was great many women and chill
dren at Mirabeau's plantation, but only one
man, Stephen Kimble, was there. The
white people never troubled the " omen and
children. The women went into COlfaX
with provisions.
Lizzie Smith was the next on the stand.
She said she was present when Mckinney
was shot. He was her brother-in-law. At
ter the white man shot him. they danced
over and around him, and whoopcd. She
assisted in getting him in a cart and re-
moving him to her fathers house.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Elis-She said
that the men who shot Jesse Mckinney
"shied their horses over the fence. The
man who shot him did it with pistol All
the men were on the inside of the fence
when Jesse was shot.
She was on the other side of the bayou
when Mckinney was shot, but could not see
all that was Transporting. She was at Mira
beau's place before the fight at Coltax
There were great many women there, but
only one man. They were never disturbed.
i
they pleased.
At the conclusion of her examination the
Court took a recess for half an hour.
At 1890 the court again assembled
Nelly saddler,
stout, very black. and rather good natured
looking negress, was called to the staud.
She saw armed men moving about several
times after the killing of Jessie Mckinney !;
she saw no one in the crowd she knew until
the day Of the fight, when she saw the two
Lemoine's; she went to COlfax after the
fight to find out if her two sons had been
killed.
They were at Colfax during the fight.
She saw the dead. Saw Irwin there. Saw
q number of prisoners in Che hands of the
white men. Did not hear what was to be
done with them, but found a number of
them dead next day. On Monday morning,
after the fight, she saw P. Lemoine in Col
fax, looking for his horse. He did not re-
main long. but went into the field looking
for his horse, and she did not see him
again.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Marr-It was
about three weeks after Jessie Mckinney
was killed that tine light took place she
saw about a dozen men going towards
Jessie Nick ,nney's place; she lived two
miles from there, on the Fazaud place;
about an honr atterward she heard a gun
shot, and about an hour afterwards the men
came back. Lizzie Smith and McKnney's
wife both stated that the men who did the
killing remained two hours after they aid
it'll On her way 10 Colfax she saw the two
Lemoines standing in the door of Pete Be-
lan's residence, on the road to COlfax, about
q mile from there.
Kit Smith,
A living, partly civilized illustration Of our
according to Darwin's theory,
dressed in a coat that was much too long,
and pants-that ere much too short, was
called.
His direct testimony was the same as that
given at the last trial.
On q cross examination by Mr.. Ellis, he
stated positively that he saw Jessie McKin-
ney at work on his fence on The day before |
he was killed. He (McKinney) was at home
Ill day. M, Kinn+y's wife said her hus-
band went to Colfax on that day.1
Witness then stated that be (witness) was |
In Colfax the best portion of the day. He
stopped 1t Colfax week before the fight.