Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-12-09

time with his fists, and that he had hi
| time and place fixed for him. That
| all hearsay with me. I know nothin
Of it of my of my own knowledge, bu
l think you will have witnesses her
who heard it. | had conversation wit
Mrs. Pinkston as. to the murder of he
husband. She told me there were fiv
or six higgers come to her house, AM
took Pinkston out and killed him, AM
tried to kill her and her child. Sh
was ia my house when she made tha
statement. She came about 8 o'clocl
aud woke me up. / suppose it wa
about two hours from the first to tn,
second conversation. She then tols
me that if it was not Brooks friends
from Ouachita, she thought it wa,
Parks or Posey's niggers, that thel
were Radicals, and that she was a rab.
i'd Democrat, and thought they came
there for the purpose of killing her
That was the idea she wanted tc
give me. [ sent for a doctor, who
came and waited on her, and after din
ner Levi Parks and man named f.
Armstrong came to my house. After
dinner we wentup tosee her, and asked
her in the presence of them whether
she knew who killed Pinkston, and who
shot her, and she said there were about
fifteen or twenty white men who came
there and attempted to kill him. She
went to their places and told differ
ent story. / understood that she said
that William Parker was one of the
killers, and he has been dead for three
rnnpfhc Nha oxtor,p ,pAaI -, nro oono
sion to get rid of her child. She had
been to neighbor's house and was COM
ing home and threw her child In the cor
ner of fence where there were some
briers. 1t was missed, and some of
the niggers went to hunt for it. This is
all since freedom. Itwas neighbor's
niger that found it. He refused to
give it up. 1 suppose she threw it
there. She says she did not, but that
a niger woman had stolen it. The
last one | know but little about, only
what my wife said. She said that Eliza
had destroyed it. She might have
done it, but I don't know. We all at
tended a Republican meeting at st.
James chapel, and she was there. A
mulatto was standing in the wagon
speaking. He was talkinga good deal
about the Democrats, and she wanted
to be in good favor with the Demo-
Gratis, and she remarked to some GEN
tlemen that if they would give her a
pistol she would shoot the heart out
of the d-d Radical" / heard her
say so myself. Mr.. Pinkstop took
very little part in politics, and stood
very well with the white people. He
sometimes got drunk, but | never saw
him intoxicated to such an extent as
to make him impudent. [ never heard
him mention politics in my life, and /
never mentioned politics to him. I
took very little part in politics myself.
After she received the wounds. she
walked three-quarters of mile to nay
house, and after the doctor attended
her, Mr.. Parks, / and the other man
went up to see her in the evening. She
was sitting on mat that she had been
lying on, with something spread over
her head. She said she was pretty
we'll, and the next day she was down
at my house. [ don't think she was
ever confined day. I would see her
sitting in the kitchen and walking
down the road. / have seen her have
bark in her arms at least two or three
days after she was hurt. The body of
the child was foand, but / saw no
marks of any kind on it, except one or
two little places on its cheek, which
looked as though the black part had
been cut off. 1t was not as big as
picayune, but no meat or anything of
that sort was taken off. The body
was found about 200 yards from the
house in the lake. As soon as I at
ten0ed TO Eliza a little, some time be-
tween daylight and sunrise, / went to
her house and found Henry Pinkston
lying about twenty steps from the
door. He was naked, except he had
On his undershirt, but it was slipped up
about his back. | found he had ball
through the side of his head and one
n the thigh and one in the stomach
and two in the legs and one in the
forehead. He was dead. He was not |
nutilated. There was not the slightest
scratch upon him except the marks. |
nad cloth thrown over him, to see if
We could not get somebody to go and |
zee something about it. Of course | |
lad him buried.
President Wells-Was the coroner
lotifed of his death? Al don't |
know, sir. | don't know that there
we're any attempts made to ferret out |
he murderers. There were a few |
white men who came to my house and |
asked me about it. They went around |
The neighborhood and made inquiries, |
but nobody knew anything about it. |
There was no action taken about the |
The corps that | know of. | don't know
Eliza Pinkston knows Jim Lo-
gan or not, but [ think she does not,
for he was never at my house but once,
md she was not there then. She new
er went to Monroe, where he lives.
Her reputation for truth and veracity
IS about as bad as it can be. / don't
know that she would tell the truth if
she knew it. She is a perfect tiger
when she gets mad. She could no
more control herself than anything you
She would fight buzz
saw, and it in motion. She would fight
4 dozen as quick as she would one.
She would never fight me, but could
not stop her using bad language. She
looked like she was crazy.
The crossexamipation continued at
great length.
AFFIDAVITs IN REBUTTAL.
The Democrats offered large num-
Der of afhdavits in rebuttal of Mrs.
Pinkston's testimony.
TESTIMONY OF J. T. SWAMI.
J. T. Swami was thesecond witness
offered by the counsel Of the Demo-
,ratic Conservative Committee. He
testified in chief in response to inter
'ogations read by Gen. Anderson. as
'ollows
My occupation is that of a farmer.
My residence is in Ouachita. | have
known Henry Pinkston for about three
vears. | don't think he was engaged |
n politics. | never heard him talk !
much in politics. | never heard him
ak much about it. He once lived on
he plantation adjoining me. | knew
IF fight he had about two months
before his death, with man named |
Black Brooks. Pinkston whipped
him, and bit his finger very badly. l |
Jaw Brooks couple of days after the
light, and asked him how his finger
vas. He said his hand was very badly
lurt, and he remarked to me in |
end to kill Pinkston if | live Pink
ton came to me himself and told me
hat his life was threatened by this
nan Brooks after the fight. He asked