The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-12-01
GOOD REPUBLICAN EVIDENCE.

We give below sample OF the Rad
ical testimony presented before the
Returning Board relative to the late
canvass. Both of the witnesses are
negroes, but swear with the endorse
port is copied from the New Orleans |
Democrat, that in the Republican is
tenfold more virulent:
Wells announced that the Ouachiia
case would be taken up. The Democra-
tic Committee protested OH the ground
that il had been agreed that East Baton
Rouge should be the first contested par
ish considered. Wells declared the
ruling OF the board changed. The wit
uesses were ordered to be brought in.
Frank MoTey, of the Republican
State Committee, said that ii WAS the
intention of the Republican counsel to
prove intimidation by the Democrats |
that negroes were threatened with
death if they did not vote the Deinocr:l-
tic ticket; that the White Republican
leaders were murdered that the ciii-
zans mi,ssed at the different boxes, and
that the negroes were intimiuated into
voting Democratic.
5 BURRELL.
Henry Burre!l was the first witness
placed on the stand. He had seen
armed rifle clubs in Cuachita, had been
arrested and 400 Republican tickets
| taken from him. These tickets he was
conn PEELED to burn. He was also COM
! p4ilcd to sweaNthat he would vote the
| Democratic ticket. There were eight
or ten other cOlored men under arrest
! at the same time.
| He thought that the colored people
| of Ouachita We're anxious to vote the
Republican ticket, but feared to do SO.
| at the time of Dinkgrave's murder the
party was well organized. 1t was ru-
uored that Dinkgrave had been mur-
,!ercd for organizing the party. He
| knew five negroes that had been muir
.lered in the parish since August %.
| ELIZA pINKsTOS'S STORY. :
Eliza pinl<ston WAS then called. She
testified that her husband had been
| killed in Ouachita parish. cdr. Noun.
| had been one Of the men that attacked
The house. They burst the door in.
Capt. Craig cried: Gag him He
votes no Es,dic;.l ticket here. He may
| vote it in hell. He has voted tl.us far
and lie may vote it no further" They
came in he house and they gagged him.
r;iut is when they cut hin. in the leg.
I said ooh, Lord don't kill my hus-
band that is all 1 have got.' One
man struck me in the face, another on
the head, with his pistol. They said !:
leave tue damned son of a bitch.' l
said: Chat is my husband l grab
bed DIR. Young, and he struck me with
mis- pistol and knocked me down or the
hearth.
They tied my husbands legs toGe-
cher, dragged him outside OF tie doc:
ana shot him seven times.
l was shot twice myself. My E;,'y :
throat was then cut fron car 10 ear.
They wanted to take something from
me before they Killed me two uftLcn
nau dealings with :ne before they shu,
me, and before they commenced deal
ing with i,lc ran under the bed, when
thcy shot me in the leg !; they caught
me by the leg, and pulled me out and
| broke the bed they cut me with the
TX. One man SAID: IF you are going
90 kill the woman, don't be botherinc
with her : and they wanted to kill me.
md lie cut me with Il knife struci,
aim and it flew up, and they never saw
it again; they got another knife, and
5hcy cut aud stabbed me, and they cut
nue. on the legs with the AK, and on the
'i,ie.'
At this point the woman either faint
|
ination was delayed for Il few minutes.
When she recovered she testified that
her chiid's body had been thrown ia the
lake.
. When questioned by Wells she in
: sisted that they had cut her with an
nN, then struck her over the head with
u pistol, and, finally, stamped all her
, teeth out of her jaw.
CROSS EXAMINATION.
Mr.. GauthrrauN wanted To know
whether the witness could be cross OK.
: ;t,uiucd; whether the witEes had not
stated that Il coloreu man had murtier-
: Ell her husband.
The witness, cmpllatically -"Oh no
They were not. There We're two col
orch men there, but Tidwcl told me
: not to tell who they were. Oh, no; oh
, no; no, no, no. We amt going to lluv,
it that way. Oh, no, sir; they wcr,
white mcn. They all came back and
tried to kill me, bat they cannot hav,
: anything that way
Wells objected to any cross rXunlina
ton of the witnesses they could III.
cross intcrruwitOrics, but could not