Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-12-01
&vlRGINIA ADVERTISER
PUBLISHED DAILY DY
EDGAR SNowDEN.
'Ehe New "Ontrage" Case.

Y New Orleans correspondent of the Fhla.
lephia Press gives tho following account
OF the new Outrage" case, by which the radi-
calls have attempted but in vain, to dotract at
;e1tion from the glaring frauds Of the returning
board 10 that city:
This case came to my knowledge several days
aro, and, horrlied by the story, l began at
once an investigation to get at the truth. |
f0nnd that the man had undoubtedly been
murdered aul the woman mamcd; as to the
hai,r there WAS TO reason TO doubt. | tOunu
a,so that the woman, Immediately alter the
murdcr. said that the murdcrcrs were negroes
and that politics and white maa had nothing
% do with il; that ouc OF tho mpu whom she
,larceu with the crime had been dead three
r;uuths, that another was miles away; that she
had told three contradictory stories about tho
oucurrcucc; that she WAS woman OF violent
temper and rabil democrat, while her hus
f,ara had orceu voted the democratic ticket;
thas she was under indictment fer murder, aud
.inay that uonn Gf the most revolving clrcum-
stances Attending the crime We're made Known
until She lei into the hands OF the custom house
people. After these discoveries | was not in
ciued to take much stock in the story As 1 case
Of political Intimidation Tonight the demC-
cratic witnesses from Ouachta arrived. Amoug
thcm ere several OF the white men who are now
,clused oi The crime, and they all court inpes.
tiyatiru | talked with Mr.. SiiweIl, on whose
pacr lluAs!on lived lie is Il venerable gen
ticncn, taking little interest IN politics. lie
lives very good character to Elnkstuu, but
very ,an one 10 his vile. She had becu IL
...na Tor some petty otten>cr aud had con.
!, ssc! aIlrmpting tie murder OF her mother IN
,,r 'ur which she was i;!eu. The old lady
lad aggravated her, she sais, and $ she
threw a Aui!t ever her head anl beat
her with 1ocks until sic thought she
was dead SidTeil says when she eame TO
his house on the merging oil tie murder she
aid that negro with whom her husband had
= tieht did it. and later in the day that radical
negroes from neighboriug plantation did 1t,
hecausc she was such j democrat, and IN the
AFTERNOON that twenty-five white meu were the
murderer. lie examined the bony Ct Tue DE-
CEASED, ao,t i; vas not munla!ed as charged in
her stoiy to day. E!c also testified that the
baby's throat was not cut, nor vas thcte any
mark On it She tod him that she We0t 10
the help ui her husband with the baby in her
arms and ii was struck and killed IN The scu1f".
Nobody IN the ncighbortioul had heard any
political complexion given to the outrage uall
the story came from New Orleans. Other geo
,emen with whom | talked are ready to tcstity
shat Eliza Pinkston was raGid democrat, and
that they heard her outSe arepub'lcin speak.
ar in open meeting just teiur2 III" rlacilnn
10 language unfit for publican, alter vainl%
eeysug to borrow pistol to shoot him. All
attempts to connect politics with this affair
&. u TO the ground aad | say it alter careful
;nvo ,tigalion. begun with The abhorrenea oi
sneh s. outrage and the conV Viotlon that 1t
was @ a @, 'me chargeable to the democrats
Of the Ja.Nes case, heard today, | ,s'!nn cannot
,ISd Itwas q genuine case OF political out
Tase' r,se' What linz CT defense can he advanced
it it j. 1i(icult to sve, and ncDe will probably be
~ aItrmnted. @ save by those Immediately concern
ed init: Prominent democrats will assist ~
triugins the guilty to justice. but there IS
trouble TO. the Kellogg government. 90 lar
t,o, .,,sn,nt;n,, n m.;utaii, pcaceit stuGious!y
culiyaes TIC outrage crop and glor'es in
tioOav harvest