The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-12-07

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Tidwell of 0uachita, witness in rebuttal
to the testimony of Mrs, Eliza Pinkston,
was introduced by the Democratic Con-
servative Committee, Interrogatories
were propounded him by General An
derson. He testified as follows;
NV name is Charles Tidwell; am a
farmer: live on 0uachita river, about
twenty miles from Monroe; have known
Eliza Pinkston for eighteen or twenty
wears; her character is very bad; knew
her in Alabama; she belonged to my
family; knew Henry Pinkston; did not
know much of him; have known him
for about two years; in general way he
was qaiet negro, ......
Another Version OF the Murder
His wife came to my house about i've
O'Clock 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; al,
ter it got daylight went down thereand
saw him; he was dead; asked what had
been done with the child; she said she
had laid it in the cradle, but the child
was not there: do not know about any
threats having been made by Henry
Pinkston, only what the negroes said and
what she said my negroes told me there
had been such a conversation in the field;
/ did not hear it; when left Alabama
Mrs. Pinkston was there in Jail; don't
know whether it was for stealing or
fighting, it was the cause of my leaving
there without her.
Origin of the Difficulty.
As understood this matter from the
niggers Pinkston had hard fight with
a niger called Alexander Brooks; did
not see the fight, but have been told it
was a very bad one at least; that it ter
minated badly for Brooks; from what the
niggers say, Pinkston said that he want
ed to renew it, 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 heresay with me;
know nothing of it of my own knowl- !
edge; but think you will have witnesses
here who heard it; had conversation |
with Mrs Pinkston as to the murder of
her husband: she told me there were |
five or six niggers came to her house and
took Pinkston out and killed him, and
tried to kill her and her child: she wasin
my house when she made this statement;
she came about five o'clock and walked
me up; she was bleeding pretty smart; |
suppose it was about two hours from the
first to the second conversation; she then
told me that if it was not Brooks friends
from 0uachita she thought it was Parks
or Pazy's nggers; that they were Radi-
Gals and that she was rabid Democrat
and thought they came there for the pur-
pose of killing her; that is the idea she
wanted to give me; sent for the doctor
who came and waited on her, and after
dinner Levi Parks and man named
Parks came to my house.
Contradictory stories Circulated by
Mrs. PinkstOn.
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
fifteen or twenty white men who came
there and attempted to kill him; she went
to other places and told different story;
/ understand that she says that William
Parker was one of the killers, and he has
been dead for three months.
How Mrs, PinkstOn Treated Her Child.
She attempted on one occasion to get
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boris house, and was coming home, and
threw her child in the corner of fence,
where there were some briers; it was
missed and so some of the niggers went
to hunt for it; it was neighbor nigger
that found it; he refused to give it up; |
suppose she threw it there; she says she
did not, but that niger woman had
stolen it; the lost one know but little
about, only what my wife said; she said
that Eliza had destroyed it; she might {
have done SO, but l don't know; we all
attended Republican meeting at St. /
James Chapel, and she was there; mu-
latto man was standing in the wagon {
speaking.
A BlOOdy Threat.
He was talking good deal about the
Democrats, and she wanted to be in good !
favor with the Democrats, and she re-
marked to some gentleman, if they would
give her a pistol she would shoot the
heart out of the damned Radical; heard
her say so myself Mr. Pinkstou took very
little part in politics and stood very well
with the white people; he sometimes got
vdrunk but never see him intoxicated to J
&uch an extent as to make him impudent;
i never heard him mention politics in :
my life nor never mentioned politics to S,
him; took very little part in politics
myself. 0 af
Extent OF Her wounds. '' g
After she received the wounds she
walked three-quarters of mile to my !
house, and after the doctor attended her,
Mr.. Parks, and the other man went to
see her in the evening; she was sitting +
on mat that she had been laying on.
with something spread over her head; |
she said she was pretty well and the /
next day she was down to my house; :
don't think she was ever confined day; !
] would zee her sitting in the kitchen j
and walking down the road; have seen I
her have bark in her arms at least two II
or three days after she was hurt; the
body of the child was found, but / saw
no marks of any kid on it except one /
or two little places on its cheek which
looked as though the black part had been
cnt off it was not as big as picayune,
but no meat or anything of that sort was
taken of; the body was found about two /
hundred yards from the house in the
lake; as soon as ! attended to Eliza
sometime between daylight and sunrise, |
] went down to her house and found
Henry Pinkston lyingabout twenty steps
from the door; he was naked except he
had on his undeIshirt, but it was slipped
up about his back; found that he had
ball through the side 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