The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-12-08
A Man and Woman who were
Left for Dead In GUachila:
Parish.
Their Arrival I'm New Orleans
Under Military Escort.

Their Arrival I'm Neyv Grleani
UDdcrNLIitasy Escort.
special Dispatch to The Chicago Tgi1unc.l
New ORLEANS, Noy. 26.-Therc
arrived in this city to day a uum
Der Of witnesses from Ouachit;
4 Parish who present a most pitifu
spectacle, and whose stories ar,
SO awful that persons who car
not see them and hear them tel
their own tales would be justified
in incredulity. They were brought
down by military escort, with {
T United States Deputy-M Marshal
and there was no little difficulty
in getting them away from tbs
parish. Among them is Ber
James, the United States Deputy
Marshal who was shot while car.
rying the bqllot-boX to the Log.
Town poll on the morning Of the
election and left for dead. He
has two wounds in his right arm,
which is broken, and one in the
hip. Another is
ELIZA PENSION,
whose husband Henry Pink-ton,
and whose baby were murdered
by a band of Bull-dozers on the
Saturday proceeding the election.
Eliza was present, and saw her
husband cut all to pieces in his
own house, and his body dragged
out and shot fall Of bullets after
he was dead. The kaby was kill
ed in her arms. She has bullet
wound in her breast, which pass
ed through her lung and out of
her back, a deep cash from a knife
in her neck, a bullet-wound in
one leg, a cut with a knife from
the hip nearly to the knee, and
her head is covered with wounds,
one Of which was given with the
butt-end Of a pistol, and the other
with an ak. The cords in one Of
her feet are also severed. She
was left for dead, and how she
survived so long seems to be a
miracle, as for two or three weeks
she has been almost constantly
hunted by the Iilden men who
murdered her husband and babe.
HENRY PINKSTON
is represented as a colored man
somewhat different from the ma
.iority, in that he seemed incapa
bic Of fear. The Bull-dozers had
been to him several times to get
him to join a Democratic club,
but he had openly declared that
he would do nothing of the kind,
and, when threatened, took no
pains to conceal his contempt for
the Bull-dozers, and said he was
afraid of none of them. 8S-
THE SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE
ELECTION
Eliza states that she heard a body !
OF horscmen stop in front Of their
house, and a man came to the |
door whose voice she recognized. !
ami said he was Brewster, RepUb.
lican candidate for the Legisla-
ture, and that he had made ar
rangements to have HIM (Pinston) |
safely conducted to Monroe,
where he could vote the Repub-
lican ticket on election day. She
said: mo, you are not Mr.. Brew
ster. Henry is not here" They
then broke in the door, and one.
called out, "tgag him! God Damn
him! Gag him!" And the room
was filled with armed men, who
with their knives stabbed her hus-
band till, as She said, his body
was filled with holes, and the
blood dropped like Gater upon
the floor. They then dragged him
out, and shot him a great many
lines afterwards. A man said to
4er, eliza, put down that baby"
She said: "lf you are going to kfll
ne, kill my baby too" A man
hen with his kife
CUT TIE BABY's THROAT,
It the same time cutting Eliza's
land, which was thrown up to
yuard the child, She was then
ut and shot and left for dead.
When she came to her senses she
lad not a stitch of clothes left on ..
Ter back, and she went to many
If the colored peoples cabins,
'ut most Of them we're afraid to :
1--WE her shelter, for fear Of the !
'engeance OF the Bull-dozers who :
we're hunting her. Her story is
lmost beyond belief, but her \
rounds arc there totestify more {
ioquently than words. S
ANOTHER WITNESS, v
amcs Henry Coleman, a colored S
nan, was under the house when a
'inkston was killed, having jump Q
d out of window. After the T
zen left who killed Pinkston he h
rawed out, but was taken or The d
Dad by the same party A rope \
as placed about his neck, and "
g was dragged down to the river, n
nd he believes that it was the il
ltention to drown him, but a II
lot was fred, and the party, for L
,me reason, galloped off and left s.
i'm. /.
STILL ANOTHER. r
Joe Sheldon has q bullet in his