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


your husband about fooling them a
to joining their Democratic club7 A
He told them that he had foole
them thus far. and he would fool ther
no further. One man said, 'Hurral
for Brewster, and he said II recko
By daylight Brewster would be dam
sorry that he got in this parish. .
Q.-Was not Henry Pinkston an ac
tive Republican, and was he not killet
/ on that account?
Ale was killed because he was
Republican. They finally got him
Tebault said, Give him hell, the d.
son of a b-h. He will vote no NOR,
Radical tickets. He will vote il ii
hell.n
Q.-State how you were treated, anC
who ill-treated you.
Al will tell you. The doctor
the same man that shot Henry, she
me once. Some of them, did mo-
know who they were, had dealings
with me, aud one spoke to another
and said, want some OF that" They
held my legs up, and jumped on me.
President Wells-Did you see them
that shot you?
The witness Yes. sir. They shot
me twice. When they came in the
house they told me to put my baby
down. / told them, mo, sir"
Question-W hat became of your
child 7 Ifit was killed, who did it Z
AnsWer-They came in the house
and said, Put your baLy down" i
said, "Oh no, sir. What do you want
to kill me for /? I am nothing but a
woman. Ifyou kill me kill the whole
Of US, They cut my baby's throat
from ear to ear. I raised my hands,
and | let my baby fall They wanted
TO take something from me before they
killed me. Two of them had dealings
with me. | ran under the bed. When
be shot me in the leg, ran under the
bed. They caught me by the leg and
pulled me out and broke the bed.
They cut me with the ak. One man
said IF you are going to kill the wo-
man, don't be botheriDg with her"
and they wanthed to kill me, and he
cut me with knife. I struck him,
and it few up and they never saw it
again. They got another knife and
they cut and stabbed me, and they cut
me on the legs with the ak, and on
the side.
at this point the woman unfastened
her dress and exposed her breast,
which was all cut up, and a most hor-
rible sight to look at. The effort of
the examination caused her to FAINT,
and the examination was therefore de-
layed few moments, until she had re-
covered.
ON your last answer you stated
that your child was killed. What be-
came Of your child's body? A.
They threw it in the lake, and we did
not fnd it again under eleven days.
Q.-Do you know of any one else
who was killed, shot or whipped on
account of their politics2 Al don't
know, sir, nothin about it. / walked
down to the river, and | seen Marion
Rhodes In there with his guns out.
Q.-Doy you know Of any one who
account Of their politics? Al don t
know what you call politics. don't
know who they drove away, but me.
All Iknow is about myself.
Odd not many colored voters
have to leave their homes at night
through fear of those armed men ri
ding over the parish at night? A
Yes, sir; / went to heep of peoples
houses, and they were lying out in the
woods to keep from the bulldozers.
Two of them stayed up to the gin
house. Both were women.
President Wells-You said that
I'D haaH khronp Il
What was the action of the parties
that threw your husband down? What
portion of his body did they cut? Did
they cut any portion of his body? A.
oh. yes they put knife through
and through him. You could hear
the knife grinding like you cut new
leather. Capt. Tebault told somebody
to jerk his arms out.
President Wells-What part of his
body was cut? Ale was cut down
below, and he was cut in the ear.
Q.-You state in your answer that
they had treated you improperly in re-
gard to your person; that they had
improper intercourse with you. Was
that before or after you were shot? A.
That was before [ was shot. They
did nothing but this, and they asked
the boys if any more of them wanted
some, and they went to shoot me.
This thing was done outside in the
moonshine. They took an ak to cut
me, but the ak few off the handle.
President Wells-They first chopped
you with an ak Answer-Yes, sir,
and struck me in the head with pis-
tol. They killed my child when they
were fooling with me. After they had
killed my child, | went to fight them
with all my might Then Logan
stamped me here (pointing to her
breasO, and somebody knocked out
all my jaw teeth, and | did not have
hollow tooth in my head.
Mr.. Gauthereaux-Would we be al
lowed to put question to the witness?
President Wells-You ought to file
your neutrality-suspicious..
Mr.. Gauthereaux-What we want is
the fuller investigation of the case,
and there seems to me there could be
no objection on the part of the board
to any question that can throw any
light on this investigation. | would
like to ask this question of the wit
ness, whether she did not, on the morn
ing after the occurrence, state to ohm
Swanson and Tidwell that a oolored
man had killed her husband?
The witness (emphatically)-Oh. no,
they were not there. There were two
colored men there, but Tidwell told
me not to tell who they were. On, no,
oh, no. No, no, no, we amt going to
have that way. Oh, no, sir. They
were white men. They all came back,
and tried to kill me, but they can not
have anything that way.
TESTIMONY OF CHARLES TIDWELL.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 30.-Before
the Returning Board yesterday Charles
Tidwell, of Ouaehita, witness In re-
buttal of the testimony of Mrs. Eliza
was introduced by the Demo-
cratic Conservative Committee. TIE
were propounded to
him by Gen. Anderson. He testified
as follows:
My name is Charles Tidwell, | am
farmer. | live on the Ouachita river,
about twenty miles from Monroe. /
have known Eliza Pinkston for eight
teen or twenty years. Her character is
very bad knew her in Alabama. She
belonged to my family. | knew Henry
Pinkston. | did aot know much of
him. / have known him for about
two years in a general way. He was
very quiet negro. His wife came to
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