The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-04
THE LYING ELIZA PIMKsTON.
A Very Bad Character Given
Her by Her Neighbors.
A Niger Bull-Doze.
THE OTHER SIDE.


New ORLEANS, Nov. 30.-In the re-
turning board on yesterday, Charles Ted
well, OF Ouachita. a witness in rebuttal
to the testimony OF Mrs. Eliza Pinkston,
was introduced by the Democratic conser-
vative committee. The interrogatories
were propounded to him by Gen. Ander-
son. He testified as follows: My name
is Charles Tedwell. am farmer and
live on Ouachita river about 20 miles from
Monroe. l have known Eliza Pinkston
for Is OF 20 years, Her character is very
bad knew her in Alabama. She be-
longed to my family. knew Henry Pink
ston. did not know much of him. l
have known him for two years,in general
way. He was very quiet negro. His
wife came to my house at o'clock on
Sunday morning and told me four or five
negroes had come TO her house and killed
her husband and beat her nearly to death
and killed her child and after it got day
light went down there and saw him.
HE WAS DEAD.
l asked what had been done with the
child. She said she had laid it in the
cradle, but the Echild was not there. /
know nothing about any threats having
been made by Henry Pinkston, only what
the negroes said she said. My negroes
told me thereIhad been such conversation
in Che field. | did not hear it. When
left Alabama Mrs. Pinkston was there in
jail, don't know whether for stealing or
fighting. II was the cause Of my leaving
there without her. AS l understood this
matter from the niggers, Pinkston had
bad fight with a niger called Alexander
Brooks. did not see the fight, but have
been told it was very bad one-at least
that it terminated badly for Brooks From
what rre
THE NIGGERS SAY
Pinkston wanted to renew it and Brooks
stated he had fought him the last time
with his fist and that he had his time and
place fixed for him. That is all hearsay
with me. l know nothing of it of my own
knowledge, but think you viii have wit
ness who heard 1t. l had conversation
with Mrs. Pinkston as to the murder Of
her husband. She told me that five
or six niggers came to her house and
took Pinkston out and killed him and
tried to kill her and her child.
She was in my house when she
made the statement. She came about
o'clock and walked me up. She was
bleeding pretty smart. | suppose it was
about two hours from the first to the Sec
ond conversation. She then told me that
if it was not Brooks's friends from
Ouachita, that she thought it was Parks 8
or Posey's niggers; that they were Radi-
Gals and that she was c rabid Democrat
and thought they came there for
THE PURPOSE OF KILLING HER.
That was the idea she wanted 10 give me.
l sent for doctor, who came and waited
on her, and after dinner Levi Parks and a
man named Z. Armstrong came TO my
house. After dinner we went up to see
her, and / asked her, in the presence Of
them, if she knew who killed Pinkston
and who shot her, and she said there were
about Is or 20 white men who came there
and attempted to kill him. She went &c
other places and told different story.
understand that she says that VIM. Par
ker was one of the killers, and he has beer
dead for three months She attempted OF
one occasion to get rid of her child. She haC
fed to neigbhnrs house, and was coming
home, and threw her child on the corner
of fence where there were some briers
Ii was missed, and some of the nigger
HOuI W uuul luz IL. 10 oil SluCs
freedom, 1t was neighbor's niger tina
found it. He
REFUSED TO GIVE IT UP.
l suppose she threw it there. She say
she didn't, but that niger woman haC
stolen it. The last one I know but it'll
about, only what my wife said. She said tina
Eliza had destroyed it. She might hay'
k,.N II ii
tended Republican meeting at st. James
chapel aud she was there. A mulatt
man was standing in the wagon speaking
Democrats and she wanted to be in gooC
favor with the Democrats and she re
marked to some gentlemen if they woul
give her pistol she would shoot the hear
out of the damned Radical. l heard he
say so myself Mr.. Pinkston took YER
little part in politics and stood very we
with the white people. He sometime
got drunk, but never saw him intoxicate
to such an extent as
TO MAKE HIM HIPUDENT,
never heard him talk politics in m
life, nor | never mentioned politics to him
took very little part in politics myself
After she received the wound she wake
three-quarters of mile to my house, an
after the doctor attended her, Mr.. Parks
L, and the other man went up to see her j
the evening. She was sitting on una
that she had been lying on, with somethin
spread over her head. She said sh
was pretty well and the next day she wa
down at my house. | don't think she wa
ever confined day would see her 81
ting in the kitchen and walking down tn
road. l have seen her have bark in he
arms at least two or three days after sh
was hurt, The body of the child WI
found. but l saw no marks of any kind G
it except one or two little places on i
cheek which looked as though the blaC
part had been cut off; it was not as big
apicayune, but
NO MEAT
or anything Of that sort was taken o.
The body was found about 200 yards fro
the house in the lake. AS soon as l a
tended to Eliza little, some time betwet
daylight and sunrise, went down to h
house and found Henry Pinkston lyil
about 20 steps from the door, He vi
naked, except be had on his undershil
but it was slipped up about his back.
found he had "a bill through the side of /
head and one 10 The thigh and one in Il
stomach, Us" 10 the legs, and one in Il
forehead. lie was dead. He was n
mutilaed. There was not the slighte
scratch except She bullet marks. had
CLOTH THROWN OVER HIM
to see ii we could not get somebody to
and see something ahont II Of coursa