New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-01

only took quilt and spread over MIN.
Question-Was he buried the next day
Answer-Yes. sir.
QuestiOn-Wh0 buried hint
Auswer-Idid.
Question-Was there any alarm giver
about this thing in the neighborhOods
Answer-N0t that heardof.
| Question-When was the child f0undY
Auswer-Four or five days afterward.
Questien-Did you hunt around for tn
child9 :,
Answer-Yes, sir; that morning, unit
breakfast. Me and the hands and Mr.. Hal
lory looked about the lake; the under
growth had been thrown down; l CAM
back and told her that the child was not il
the cradle; she said she put it there; l wen
back again that evening and hunted for it
Question-Then it. was not found unit
4 four days afterward?
Answer-Four or five days. / dom
know.
Question-Found in the lake?
Answer-Yes, sir; little negro boy. WHIT
lived beyond her house, found the child
At the time l wss at the ginhOuse.
QuestiOn-Was the sheriff of the parist
informed about the matter3
ADswer-I don't think We have any cher
if. think he has run away.
Question-Is there justice of the peace
living in the neighborhood3
Ans wer-There was not.
| QuestiOn-Did any person come to visit
the scene of the murder that day?
| Answer-Mr. Parks was there, and Mr.
Armstrong and Hallory. That was all, ex
cepting some negroes.
| Question-Was there any funerall
| Aoswer-No, sir; no funeral l do not
think there was prayer at the grave.
stayed there until they all left.
| QuestiOn-Was he put in cotiinY
Ans wer-N0, sir; he was just rolled up
| in quilt. He had laid 60 long We could
| not get any cCfin for him. We put him in
| the grave and Just threw the dirt over him.
Questionable has never been removed?
Answer-No, sir; he was not when l left
home.
Question-You had another conversation,
you sayf
Answer-Yee, cir; the second time she
said it was q white man. No; that was the
third time.
Question-Did she tell you that Il was
one of the rifle clubs that had been there?
Answer-No. sir.
Ouestion-Did she mention the name of
DR.. Young9
that told me Of it.
Answer-No, sir; not until two or three
days afterwards. TO the President)-YOu
told me not to answer anything except that
writren-of my own knowledgel
President Welle-Yes, sir.
Question-How long did she remain at
your place!
Answer-I can not tell; this thing was
done ON Saturday night before the election
the Sunday following.
QuestiOn-She went away of her own
free will and accordf
Answer-Of her own free will and &C.
cord; think that that is it; she might have
remained q week longer; now, you don't
seem to understand ME; this murder was
committed on Sunday morning, or l did
not know it till then; think 1t was then
that she came to my quarters and stayed
there, and think think it was just . week
from the time the shooting was done that
she left my place; ! was not at home at the
time but when 1 returned somebody told
me Eliza had gone; che had just gone up on
q visit.
Ques.ion-You have q son; was he at
home that night
Answer-No, sir; he did not come home
for two or three days.
Question-They cay che mentions hint
Answer-Yes, sir.
Quest;On-Is he a member of rife COM
psny in that neighbOrhOOd!
Answer-I don't know whether ne is or
not; think he is though l thiok he is
member of company; they have club
and company.
Question-Is he q member Of Captain
Thieuaults company!
Answer-Yes, sir.
Question-Do you know whether the club
was out that night
Answer-I never saw one of them or had
not for several days.
Question-There is such club!
AnsWer-Yes sir,
Question-Do they go out at nights
Answer-I never saw one out at night; l
know my sOn never went ont.
Qaestion-Did you raise this womsn2
Auswer-Yes, sir.
Question-How old is she?
Answer could not say; she ia the
mother of three children, and is twenty
five or twenty-eight years old.
Ouestion-She was freed in Alabama9
Answer-Yes, sir; che was freed in Ala.
bama.
President Wells-Did you examine the
premises when you visited the body to see
whether there were any signs Of parties
who had committed the outrage left upon
the premises!
Answer-Yes, sir; 1 went in the house
and tumbled up the bed and look ed in the
beds and in the cradle and under the house;
they had broken the steps of the door down;
l looked in the shrubbery.
Question-What want to arrive at is,
were the parties who committed the depre-
dations on horseback 7 Do you think from
any signs around that there had been any
number of horsemen about the premises
Answer-She lived on q place where there
is green turf and carpet grass. There might
have been 100 horses around, and when
they got into the road l could not tell
whether they had been at my house or not.
unn n "a q
in the road!
Answer-No, sir; the whole road was COW
cred with the grass.
Question-In going into the house, was
the road carpeted with the grass!
AnsWer-No, sir; there was a little path
that went into the house.
Queston-How far was the public road
from the house!
Question-About thirty PAGES.
Answer-How did the parties approach
her house-was there gate or pair OF barsi
Answer-Well, sir, the house has Lot been
kept for two or three years; it stands out
on the lake with nothing around it.
Qucstion-Then the whole place was GOV
cred over with the grass?
Answer-The whole of it was covered
over with very nice grass; and If it al been
carpetsd over with grass it would have
been very difficult to see the horse track on
it.
Questionable you make an examination
to see whether horses h ID been up to the
house from the highway!
Auswer-No sir.
Question-Now you stated you had no
sheriff.
Answer-We did have sheriff, but l
think he was in New Orleans.
Quesiion-Do you know of your own
knO ledge whether the sheriff of the par
ish of Ouachita was forced to leave the
parish or notl
ANSWERING, sir; don't. l don't think