The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-12-07

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The following is copied from the re-
| port of Eliza Pinkston's examina-
| ton:
| Q. State how you were treated and
who ill-treatcd you?
| A. will tell you. The doctor-the
same man that shot Henry-shot me
once. Some of them (I did not know
who they were) outraged me. They
held me and jumped on me.
President Wells. Did you see them
that shot you?
Yes sir, they shot me twice when
they came in the house. They told me
to put my baby down. told them no
sir.
q. What became of your child; if it
was killed who did it?
A, They came in the house and
said, ''Put down your baby" / said,
"oh no. sir, what do you want to XIII
me for, am nothing but woman. If
you Kill me, kill the whole of US. They
cut the baby's throat from car to ear.
| raised my hands and let the baby fall.
They wanted to outrage me before
they killed me two of them did so !;
| ran under the bed when they shot me
in the leg; L ran under the bed and
they caught me by the leg and pulled
me out,an broke the bed; they cut me
with the AK; one man said, 'If you are
going to kill the woman don't be
bothering with her )" and they wanted
to Kill me and he cut me with knife :;
| struck him and it flew 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 an AK
and on the side.
AT this point the woman unfastened
her dress and exposed her breast,
which was all cut up, and most hor-
rible sight to look at
The effort of the examination caused
her to faint, and the examination was
therefore delayed for few moments,
until she had recovered
Q. In 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 find it again for eleven days.
q. Do you know of any one else be-
ing killed, shot or whipped on account
of their politics
a. don't know, sir, nothing about
it. | walked down to the river, and
seen Marion Rhodes in there with his
guns out.
q. Do you know of any who were
driven away from their homes on ac-
count of their politics
a. | don't know who they drove
away but me. All know is about
myself.
q. Did not many colored voters have
to leave their homes ct night through
fear of these armed men riding over
the parish at night? y. Yes, sir. |
went to heap of peoples houses, and
they were lying out in the woods to
keep from the bull-dozers. Two of
them stayed up the Clubhouse. Both
were women.
President Wells. You said that your
husband had been thrown down; 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 grind
ing like you cut new leather. Capt.
Tebault told somebody to jerk his arm
out.
President Wells. What part of his
body was cut? A. lie was cut down
below, and he was cut in the ear.
q. You stated in your answer that
they had treated you improperly in re-
gard to your person that they had i'm
proper intercourse with you; was that
before or after you were shot? A.
That was before | was shot: they took
an AK to cut me, but the AK flew off the
handle.
President Wells. They first chopped
you with an ak? a. Yes, sir; and
struck me in the head with a pistol.
They killed my child when they were
fooling with me. After they killed my
child went to fighting them with all
my might Then Logan stamped me
here, (pointing to her breast and some
body knocked out all my jaw teeth,
and | did not have hollow tooth in
my head.