New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-30

the hearth opened the door. Sho did not
tell me she was bleeding but a. SOON as
got light I saw she was bleeding. She
STAYED in the room about fifteen minutes.
Question-Did you think to examine her
cl0selys
Answer-No, sir. only looked at the
blood and where her throat was cut.
Qaestion-Did You interrogate herr
Answer-No. cir.
Question-Did you tell her to go up to .
rooIEg
Answer-Yes, sir; to 60 up to the cabins
and as soon as it got light l would come to
see her.
Question-Did you 20 back to bedi
Answer-NO, Fir; her husband was dead
and little child, and I did not 60 to bed.
uestiOn-How long q time had elapsed
from the time she came there and went up!
Auswer-YOu know how long it is from
daylight to sunrise; l suppose it was about
half an hour; was working to stop the
blood; it was ab0at an hour after she came
down that went there.
Question-Dia you take the woman
along:
Answer No, sir. She could not go then;
she was at my house on the plantation.
did not hear any shooting.
Question-How long dds you stay down
at the cabin where the murder took place?
Answer-I reckon that stay ed an hour
or two hunting the child. She told me the
child was in the cradle.
Question-Did you bury the man?
Answer-No, cir. He laid there all day,
right where we found him.
Question-YOu did not move him2
Answer-Eo. sir; l never touched him; l
only took Q quilt and spread over him.
Question-Was he buried the next day?
Answer-Yes, sir.
Question-Whs buried him?
Answer-1did.
Question-Was there any alarm given
shout this thing in the neighborhOOd!
Answer-Not that heardof.
Question-When was the child found9
Answer-Four or five days afterward.
Qlestisn-Did you hunt around Tor the
child!
Answer-Yee, sir; that morning, until
breakfast. Me and the hands and Mr.. Hal
lory looked abont the lake; the under
growth had been thrown down; l came
back and told her that the child was not in
the cradle; che said she put it there; went
back again that evening and hunted for it:
Question-Then it was not found until
four days afterward9
Answer-FOur or five days. l don't
know.
Question-Found in the lake9
Answer-Yes, sir; . little negro boy, who
lived beyond her house, found the child.
At the time I was at the ginhOuse.
Question-Was the sherif of the parish
informed about the matter7
Answer-I don't think We have any sher-
iff think he has run away.
Question-Is there justice of the peace
living in the neighborho0d?
Ans wer-There was not.
QuestiOn-Did any person come to visit
the ecene of the murder that dayY
Auswer-Mr. Parks was there, and MIR.
Armstrong and Hallory. That was all, ex-
cepting some negroes
Question-Was there any funerals
Answer-No, sir; NO funeral. do not
think there was prayer at the grave. /
stayed there until they all left.
Question-Was he put in q coffin?
Answer-No, sir; he was just rolled mp
in quilt. He had laid so long we could
not get any coffin for him. We put him IN
the grave and just threw the dirt over him.
uestion-He has never been removed!
Arswer-No, cir; he was not when l left
Question-You had another conversation,
Answer-Yes, sir; the second time she
said it was white man. No; that was the
third time.
Qaestion-Did she tell you that it wac
one of the rife clubs that had been there!
Answer-No. sir.
Ouestion-Did she mention the name of
DR.. Young!
Answer-Not home; che did to others
that told me of it.
Ouestion-That day!
Answer-No, sir; not until two or three
days afterwards. To the President)-You
told me not to answer anything except that
written-of my own knowledge'
President Welle-Yes, sir.
ho al
your place?
Answer-I can not tell; this thing was
done on Saturday night before the election
on Tuesday, aud think she stayed until
the Sunday following.
Question-She went away Of her own
free will and accOrd}
Auswer-Of her own free will and ac-
cord; I think that that is it; che might have
remained . week longer; now, you don't
seem to understand me; this murder was
committed on Sunday morning, or l did
not know it till then; think 1t was then
that she came to my quarters and stayed
there. and think think it was Just week
from the time the shooting was done that
she left nv place; | was not at home at the
time, but when 1 returned somebody told
me Eliza had gons; she had just gone up on
visit.
Q1estion-You have q son; was he at
home that night!
Apswer-No, sir; he did not come home
for two or three days.
Queetion-Thev cay she mentions him!
Answer-Yee, sir.
Ouestioa-Is he q member of rifle COM
psny in that neighborhood?
Answer-I don't know whether he is or
not; think he is though; think he ls q
member of q company; they have . club
and company.
Questicn-Is he q member of Captain
The bault's company!
Answer-Yes, cir.
Question-Do you know whether the club
Answer-I never saw one of them or ha d
not for several days.
Question-There is such club9
Answer-Yes, sir.
Question-Do they go out at night!
Answer-I never saw one out at night; l
know my son never went out.
Qaestion-Did you raise this woman}
Answer-Yes. sir.
Question-H0w old is she?
Answer-I could not say; she is the
mother of three children, and is twenty
five or twenty-eight years old.
Question-She was freed in Alabamas
Answer-Yes, sir; she was freed in Ala
bama.
President Wells-Did you examine the
premises when you visited the body to Gee
whether there were any signs Of parties
who had committed the outrage left upon
tho premises?
Answer-Yes, sir; went in the house
and tumbled up the bed and look ed in the
beds and in the cradle and under the house;
they had broken the steps of the door down
I looked in the shrubbery.
Question-What want to arrive at is
n-<sn ,t,N witt ktoA t1aA
dations on horseback Do you think from
any signs around that there had been any
number of horsemen about the premises
Answer-She lived on place where there
is green turf aud carpet grass. There nigh,
haNa hean LOO horsas araund and when