The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
Speech of Hon. c. G. Williams,
of Wisconsin, in the House
of Representatives.
Feb'y 27, 1875.
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Mr.. Williams. of Wisconsin. Thank
Heaven for that. But I will proceed
LOUISA BANKS (colored) sworn.
Question. Where do You live?
Answer. Out on Jack son road.
@. How far out from the town?
A. Three and half miles, / reckon, on
Mr. Bays place
Q, Have any Of your family been killed
lately
A. Yes, sir.
O. Who has been killed
A. Ny husband and son.
O. Where
A. Right out from my house
Q. WHAT day?
A. Monday.
O. What time of the day ?
A. I reckon between ten and eleven
o'clock.
@. How old was your son
A. Eighteen years.
0. Now tell US how that happened
A. Ali can say, a gentleman rode up to
where nv husband was stauding right out :
side the door and they told him to come
out Immediately, AMI he went out, and they
asked where was his son, and he said in the
house he told him to call him out, and he
called him out
| @. What was done then ?
a We had pistol there, and they asked
| for 1t they struck st him with gun ard
ran him hack in the yard behind a hay-stacK.
and he ran down the hill, and they shot him.
| @. That was your husband?
A. No, my son they had my husband
holding the horses until they shot my son,
and when they me back they made him
tie the horses and told him to walk out, and
ten or fifteen yards from my door they shot
! him.
O. Who did this ?
| A. l do not know, sir.
/ @. How many of them were there
| A. Five 0fthem.
! @. Were they on horseback !?
| A. Three ofthem on horseback and two
| on mules.
| @. Do you know anything about fight
had there on jackson road
! A Iheard them shooting up there, and
| that was all know.
| O. Was this after that?
| A. Yes, sir.
| O. Your husband and son were in your
own house ? -
@. Had they ueen away that morning?
A. No, sir my husband had not left
home, for they said every man who staid
at home attending to his business they would
net hurt them.
@. Had your son been out
A. No, sir mot ON the read, that [ know
of. We sent him down to cut some wood
that morning. and when he heard such a
| fuss on the road shooting he came into the
house, and his father told him to stay in the
house and nobody would hurt him.
0. You had heard somewhere that peo-
pie who staid at home would not be hurG.
A. Yes, sir
Q. DID they get off there horses when
they came III ?
A. Two of them got off and the other
three ktaid on their horses.
@. What was the first thing they said
A. They just came up aud hollered to my
husband to come out here" and said they
were going to settle this thing that day.
/ @. What did he say?
A Never said anything, but went right
up to them.
Q. What did they say to your son?
q. They asked him for the pistol, and
they got the pistol up there in the house
1t was lying UP loft white man reached
up there and took it down.
@. Then did they say anything else to
your son
A. No, sir.
| @. Where did he go?
A. He went on through the house. A
man urged him on with gun, and he ran
through The house and he ran after him.
j @. Did the man 20 through the house,
too 2?
/ A. He did, sir.
I @. How tar from the house was he shot ?
:. A. Just right out behind the house where
he was shot at then he ran down the hill
about fifty yards.
O. Was he shot DIT more than once?
@. Did the first shot hit him?
A. Hit him right in his back.
@. Where did the second shot hit him?
A. Right in here, Indicating the breast. /
t He was lying fat On his back, and the hole
was right 10 here.
@. They shot hin; afte. he fell
! A. suppose they did by that.
Q. Did the men say ything after that
! A. Never said anything only told us
women to go into the house and shut the
i door.
/. @ Was your husband holding the horses!
A. Yes, sir; while they were shooting
his son and then they made him tie the
q horses and told him to walk out
VI O What was their language
A. You tie them horses and walk out
p here.1
@. How far did he walk from where he
TIED the horses?
A. About ten or fifteen yards.
@. And then what lid they do?
!. A. Nothing; but just shot him right
II @. More than one dot
A. No, sir one shot. right through hls
neck.
: Q, What did they d, then?
, A. Jumped on thei horses and told III
! to go into the house anil shut the door.
n @. What did they d next?
A. Just came up thu road.
Mr.. O'Brien Letme ask the gentle
9 man question.
+ Mr.. Williams, of Wisconsin. How
> much time have Aft
: Mr.. Wilson, of Indiana. Does the
9 gentleman from Wisconsin know of any
!, body beirg % shed there for such