Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-12-01
LOUISIANA.
Continuation OF Wednesdays session o
fbe Returning Beard.

NEW ORLEANS. November 3O.--Yesteriay Chas.
TidWel, a witness I'm rebuttal of the testimony Of
Mrs. Eliza PlnkSt0n, WIS introduced by the
acknowledgements committee. The interrOgd-
tories were pTOpOuuded TO MIN Dy General AndtTSUil
and be testified as follows; My name Is Charles I'D
we'll; am farmer: live In Ouaclttd parish, about
twenty miles from MOnrOe have known Eliza Pinks-
ton for or twenty years. her character Is very bad
knew her in Alabama; she belonged 10 my family
knew Henry PinkstOn; did not know much OF MIN;
/ have known him for about two years, in general
way: he very quiet negro; his VILE came 10 llly
house about fve o'clock Sunday morning, and told
me -four live negroes had come to her house, and
killed her husband, and beat her nearly TO death aE
Killed her child after 1t got daylight went DOWN
there and saw him; he was dead; l asked what nad
beu done with the child; she said she had laid II in
the cradle; but the child was not there; d0n know
anything about any threats having Deen MADE by
Henry PiBkstOn, Ony what the negroes said; my ne
gTOes told me there had been such conversation IN
the feld did not hear il when left Alabama Mrs.
Pnkston was there In lalli don Know whether II
was for stealing or fighting; II was the cause or my
leaving there without her; as under
stood this matter from the negroes,
PiDkStOn had bad fight with Niger called Alex
ander Brooks; did not see the fight but have been
told that 1t very bad One-at least that II ter
minated very badly for Brooks; from what the mig
gers say PinstOn stated that be wanted TO renew II,
and Brooks stated that he had fought him the last
time With his fists, and that he had his time and
place fixed for him; that Is all hearSay; KNOW
nothing of It of my own knowledge, but think you
will have witnesses here who heard 1t; had con-
yersatiOn with Mrs PinkstOn as TO the murder OF her
husband and she told me there were five or six mig
gers who came to her house and took PlnSston out
and killed him, and tried 10 XIII her and her child
She was In my house when she made this statement
she came about five O'Clock and woke me up; she
WAS bleeding pretty smart; suppose II was about
two hours from the first 70 the second conversation;
she then told me that If II was not BrOOksS friends
from Ouachita, she thought II was Park or PoSey
ngg5Ts that they were Radicals and that she was a
FaOid Democrat, and thought that tney
came there for the purpose OF killing
her; that was the idea she wanted 10 give me- sent
for doctor, who came and waited on her and after
dinner Levi Parks and a man named T. Armstrong
came 30 my house; after dinner we went up TO see
her and asked her In the presence OF them II she
knew who killed PinlstOn and who shot her and she
said there we're about fifteen or twenty white men,
who came there and attempted 10 Kill him; she
Eens 20 other places and told different story; un-
deTstOOd that she says that VIM. Parker Was one or
the killers, ana ne has been dead for three months;
she attempted one occasion to get rid of her child;
she had been 10 neighbors house, and was coming
home. and threw her child in the corner Of fence
where there were some breTs; II was missed. and
some OF the nggers went TO hunt Tor II; this IS all
Siuce freedom il was nelghb9rs niggeT that found
ii: he refused 70 give II up suppose she threw 1t
there: she says she did not but that Niger woman
itffia iIfii abSit-9I,v What my wife said; she
s,,id that Eliza had destrG.af ~ she might have
done SO, tu. don't know; We all attended kepuO'
lIcan meeting at ST. James cnapel, anu Slle was
there; there was a mulattO man standing In the
wagon speaking; he was talking a good zeal dOOut
tse Democrats and she wanted to be IN good laVor
With the lieEl:QcTdts, and she remarked TO some
Gentlemen fiat IN the; would give her pistol she
gOuid shoot the hear cut OF he damned Hldlcal; |
saFd her say 80 myself Dir PlDkstSl A very lilIie
- Su politics. and stood very well With fhe white
p,i. padt some times got drunk. but | never san
- I'D 10 such an extent - TO make him
iI,,ief. ney-- heard him menilon p0lliles IN
my life, nor Inever N H. ~ b I'm,
VERY little part in politics atet sne ieJgl't -
me wounds she walked thTee-quairi9 oI liiliS 70
INV rssideI.ra and after the doctor G9eAaed net,
Mr. Parks | and the other man went up ~ Ses ue4
a. tFa aystgs She was sitting Ona mat that she had
been laying on, with something spread over her Iieu
sbe said she was pretty we'll, and the next DAY she
down at my house; ae, sIlS i., T., M foe Ii hea
and walking down the road; have seen her nave
mari, in her arms at least two or tnfce tlihcs dyer
She was hurt the body OF the cllllu Was loulu Dut
saw no marks of any kind on Il except one or tHO
{rlIs Blaces on its cheek. which iOOAeu u t4ough
te bfak ySTt had been cut OIL; II was MOI rs Vis hs
a uIcayIns but no meat or anything OF that sort
yyas taken OF: t,e bod; was found about two hun
dred yards from the house ~ ne lakei as soon a.
had attended 70 Eliza lRte, sQni9 tipie petheeIi
daylight and sunrise. went down TO beT EStse ana
found Henry Pinkston lying ab0gt twenty steps IRON
the door he was naked eXcefd he ha1 on Dls ull-
dershirt, but It was sHppedup abom the back; J
fGnad that he had a ball through the Side OF MS
head one in the thigh, one in the stomach two In
the legs and one I'm the forehead; he was dead;
he was notsn.Hlated; there was not the slightest
scratch upon him eleea he marks; Ihad cloth
thrown over him 10 see If We egue nOt get somebody
to 20 and see something about IT, 'oi eoiirse had
President Wells-Was the coroner notified OF his
Answer don't know. sir; I don't know thai
there WIS any attempt llltut " LOigt VuA tAt Llul
derrrs: there were a few white men come 10 my
houSs nd asked me about Il: they went around the
neighborhood aEd made inquiries tut nobOdy knew
anythIng about Il; there Vas no action taken abOut
/ the corpse that know Of; ] d0lt; Know whether
Eliza Pinkston knows jim Logan OF not, but think
she does not fOI he was at my house but once,
and she was not there then: she never vent IL
Monroe where he lives; her reifn alton Tor trltn
anG yefsC.y IS rs bad rs :. can be- don't know that
She would tel The iFgthIf she kRcF IL she IS per
fee tiger; -shen Size gas rad she coGi' nc Hofe
eontrOl herself S-Su anything ysd IglGAt imagine;
she Teuld light ClZZ saw II lh Lt9ilVA'
she would fglt a dozen as q.,i"& as shS
wsuld enc; sne would neyer fight me- but eolll
2eSeF stop her using bad language; shs talked Ike
vas crazy. a
sue Hr0sSeYaminati0n was continued az great
,lS LIE Ne Democrats offered large number Of
si5i, a. - ~Ittal OF the Pinkstcn testimony.
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