The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-08-21

middling to strict low mi'id|ing l3s@
, l3f, middling to strict middling l4sa
I4A. Receipts 81 bales no exports
stock l747l ; weeks sales 1850; re
oeipts net @. gross 243. exports t,
continent 1881 Great Britain 1904
nnsold last evening 1850 ON ship
board 10000.
Confession of the Nicholsons
My name is Henry Nicholson,
have been farming on Col. Rouh;cux'>
place; the first warning l had o.
trouble was the appearance Of &
squad of men who came to Col. Ron.
bieux's in scarcl, of me, saying l had
committed murder. heard that they
intended hanging me; through fear,
brother and | avoided arrest more 70,
personal safety than We did the law.
The time the squad came t" my house
l met and spoke to Mr.. Webster and
another man in the road, they said
nothing to me as to their object. !
don't know anything of the murder
Of Young; l bought goods of him and
paid for them. Col. Roubicux's Son
aud Tom. Lonasell, saw me IaX and
Rails" H s,d tSs aaHaq 7 Went over to GUS.
Birds. Yoons's goods were brought
to my house after | left home. After
hearing OF the intention of the crowd,
I went t" my brothers house, 4 mile
distant and asked him it any one
had been there, and he answered yes.
From Baptistc l heard that trouble
was ahead, he told me that ut night.
Had no scrious trouble with Col.
Ronbieux, he offered to fight any.
way, but 1 refused to have any diff
ticulty lie proposed to buy my crop
or sell me his, agreed to sell, and
hc told me that he would pay part
cash and give his draft for the bal
ance, which agreed to-. After leav-
ing home, myself and Bro, were in
the woods adjacent eight or ten days,
and were poisoned by negro named
Henry Dallas, who was to feed us.
The evening We were poisoned l was
ut Can"n's and a squad Of men came
up and | IAN away, they fired at me
without telling me to halt, the shots
did not touch me. We left this sec
ton that evening; never saw another
squad until We got to Nelms, saw
two men there who came up and
made enquiry for us and We ran away,
they fred at us, one bali passing
through my hat, didn't get wounded;
stopped to pull Oft my shoes in the
field. From Nelm's we went I"
Ounce Dawkin's, in Union parish,
and there another squad came upon
us, we were i'll the orchard AZ the
time, and stepped outside, and from
there went toward Arkansas. cross.
ing the Ouachita river ut Wilmington,
and went sixteen miles east; WAS ut
Mrs. Parkcr's when tho squad that
captured us came up, and was not
asleep. The head man said the squad
would protect us from q mob, aud VIC
did not try IL escape on the way t"
Conshatta.
Onr reporter then asked him What
he thought or knew Of the mysterious
disappearance Of Oglesby, aud Henry
very promptly aud willingly answer.
ed: III
I don't know ANYTHING abont the
Oglesl,y murder. They say Tom Hen
ton killed him. Tom Henton was at
my house at the time Oylcsby was
killed. The reporter repeated his
question and Nicholson don't know
when Oglesby was killed. In answer
As to how they left here aud how
they were armed, the same party,
said: We left here on foot we had
q shot gun each and through fatigue
and want, we sold one gun to u negr"
man living near Tulip, this side Of
Homer. lie was to pay SIP in money
and transport us that day in Il wagon
never got y cent of money for tia
gun passed through Arizona and
Lisbon in day light.
The NichOlsons were captured in
Calhoun county, Ark, at Mrs. Par
ker's house, at II o'clock of tho night
Of last Saturday. They were worn
out from fatigue and without money.