New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-01

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says that William Parker was one
of the killers, and he has been dead foI
| three monthe; she attempted on one coca.
sion to get rid of her child; she had been to
. neighbours house and was coming home
| and threw her child in the corner of fence
where there we're some briare; it was missed
and some of the niggers went to hunt for 1t;
this all since freedom; it was . neighbours
| niger that found it; be refused to give ii
up; suppose she threw it there; she says
che did not, but that Q niger woman had
stolen it; the last one l know but little
about only what my wife said she said. that
Eliza had destroyed it; she might have de.
stroyed it, but don't know: we all attended
| Republican meeting at St. James Chapel
and she was there; Q mulatto man was
standing in the wagon speaking; he was
and she wanted to be in good favor with
the Democrats, and she remarked to some
gentlemen if they would give her pistol
she would shoot the heart out of the damned
Radical; l heard her cay 81 myself; Mr..
Pinkston took very little part m politics,
and stood very we'll with the white people;
he come times got drunk. but l never saw
him intoxicated to such an extent that it
would make him impudent; l never heard
1 never mentioned politics to him; l
took very little part in politics my
self; after she received the wounds
she walked three quarters of mile to my
house, and after the physician attended
her Mr.. Parks, and the other man went
up to see her in the evening; she was sit
ting on mat that che had been laying on,
with something spread over her head: she
said she was pretty well, and the next day
she was down at my house; don't think
che was ever confined q day; would see
her sitting in the kitchen and walking down
the road; have seen her have bark in her
arAsst least two or three days after she
was hurt; the body of the child was found,
but / saw no marks Of any kind on it ex-
cept one or two little places on it's cheek,
which looked as though the black part had
been cut off; it was not ss big as plea
yune, but no meat or anything of that sort
was taken off; the body was found about
200 yards from the houee, in the lake;
Is soon as l attended to Eliza little,
come time between daylight and sunrise,
went down to her house and found Henry
Pinkston lying about twenty steps from the
door: he was naked, except he had on his
undershirr, but it was slipped up about the
back; I found he had ball through the
eide OF his head, and one in the thigh and
one in the stomach, two in the legs and one
in the forehead; he was dead; he was
not mutilated; there was not the slightest
scratch upon him except the marks; l had
q cloth thrown over him, to see it we could
not get somebody to 90 and see something
about it; of course had him buried.
President Wells-Was the coroner mott
fed of his death!
Answer-I don't know, SIT; l don't know
that there were any attempts made to
ferret OUT the murderers; there were O
few white men came to my house and
asked me about it; they went around the
Oh ne nd hnf
body knew anything about it; there was no
action taken about the corpse that know
Of; l don't know whether Eliza Pinkston
knows Jim Logan or not. but Think she
does not, tor he was never at my house but
once, and she was not there then; she never
went to Monroe, where he lives; her repu-
tation for truth and veracity is about as
bad as it can be; l don't know that she
would tell the truth if che knew it; she is q
perfect tiger when che gets mad; she could
no more control herself than anything you
might imagine; che would fight buck saw
and it in motion; she would fight q dozen
as quick as she would one; she wO1ld never
fight me, but could rOt stop her using bad
language; she looked like she was crazy.
President Wells-You said you lett her
in Alabama.
Auswer-Yes. sir.
Question-How long have you resided
here?
Auswer-FOur years.
Qaestion-HOw did sho come from Ala
baina! Do you know
Answer-Colonel Morrison imported her
to the State; she lived with Colonel
Morrison; che left him and came to my
place; they say that she had q difficulty
with her mother in.law; she told me she had
thrown quilt around her mother-in law
and had beaten her to death and had run
away; | had a daughter in Bastrop, and
when my daughter came home she came
with her.
President Wells-How far did she live
from your house at the time OF the deed
Answer-AbOur three quarters OF mile.
OueetiOn-Did you hear any reports dur
ing the melee!
Answer-NO, cir; did not.
Cross. examination by Mr.. MOrey.
Question-Did the story which she told
YOU the second time coincide with what she
told you when she came TO your house!
Answer-No, sir; she told me very diff
ferent story; at the first conversation she
told me she thought it was Parks or
Poses, Radical niggere; she said this first
went to the cabin, and the balance
of the conversation occurred after dinner.
Mr.. Parks and Mr.. Armstrong were there.
Ouestion-It was then that she told you
that the white men did it,
Answer-Yes, sir asked her if she
knew any of them, and she said she did not
know one of them, and at the conversation
during the dav she said she did.
OuestioD-What did she tell you, when
she first came up, what had become OF her
child!
Auswer-That these men had killed it.
and she had laid it in the cradle and run
inc
to me; she said she made out like she was
dead, and they went eft.
Qoestion-What was the first story che
told you as to the murder of her husband,
in the presence Of the white people?
Answer-She told me that few niggers
had come and attempted to take and kill
him.
Questicr-When did she first tell you
thar
Answer-She first told me that when che
came to my house. There was gentleman
in my house named Hallory; he was lying
in bed when she came, about twenty feet
off from her.
Question-YOu stated in your answer
Just now that she told you in the presence
of these white men that they came around.
Who did she say came around and did the
men!
Answer-She never said that any white
men came around enoOtlDS nlggers.
0aestion-Wno dill she say came
around!
Answer-She said she did not know
them.
Questionable you not understand her to
say that she said go in the presence of these
two gentlemen? l am asking you what she
said, what was the story she told you as to
who did that shooting when the white men
were present!
Arswer-Sae tel | me she did not know
them.
Question-Yeu state that she told you
the story when the white men were present,
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