New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-08
ORLEANS, DECEMBER g.

lican ticket at the election then to occur,
but that after the threats made to them and
the promise they had given they were afraid
to do SO; that they were certain Of being
under the circumstances would be to i'm
peril their lives.
Henry Gully and Alex Williams, eolored,
living near st James Chapel on the Island
in Ouachita parish, on Mr.. Charles It'd
wells place, stated to me November 6 that
on the night of Saturday the fourth and
Sunday morning, the fifth of November,
Theob AIDS men, thirty or forty in number,
raided the houses of colored people in the
vicinity of their (the witnesses) homes;
that they killed Henry Pinkston and his
Eliza PinkstOD, his wife (all colored); that
as late as | z. NJ, Sunday, the fifth, the
body of Henry Pinkston was lying where
killed, naked and unburied; that these
armed raiders broke into and entered the
houses of Ranald Driver, Edridge Lark
spur aud Solomon Mathews, all c0lored, liv-
ing at the Lyle Place; that Driver was
taken OUT. whipped and badly beaten by
them; that Larkspur wac not at home, and
Mathews escaped and was pursued across a
field, q number of shots being fired at him
h6 AC lieu, Lh0t ou tGO AsutA PiuCcs nov w
cupied by MIR. Dawson, they breke open
the house of VIM. Logwood, oolored, but he
was away .rom home. These witnesses
stated that they we're only enabled to
reach Monroe by travelling through the
woods remote from the highways bY
stealth. That all of the roads on the Is
land leading to Monroe were patrolled by
armed and mounted white men, and that
the Chauvan bridge, across the bayou of
that name. was strongly pieketed: that
these patrols and pickets were stopping all
cOlcred people on the roads.
Sebrun Robertson, cOlOred, stated to me,
on the same day, that he lived on James +.
Pece's place, near and below ST. James
Chapel; that on SATURDAY., October II, he
was told BY DR.. VILLAIN Young that II he,
Robertson, did not join the Democratic club,
there would be shooting done near his (Rob.
erson'e) house GU the folio wing week; that,
being afraid of losing his life, he abandoned
his home, going to Monroe; that on the light
of October % his house was broken into by
o body of men and search made for him.
Ranald Dr.ver, an old colOred man.
stated t. me that he lived on the Lyle
place; that about midnight of November 4
his house was broken open and entered by
Q large body of armed men, among whom
were William T. TheObald, the three
Logan boys (James. Robert and Walter)
and DR.. Young, white men, and Frank
Durham and Tom Lyons, cOlored; that he
was seized, taken from his bed and house,
blindfolded, thrown and stretched upon the
ground, his shirt and drawers stripped off,
leaving him entirely naked, men holding
him by the feet and arms. in which con
ditiOn he was beaten by these men upon
his naked body with leather surcingle;
that he thinks he received at the hands of
these men at that time over 400 lashee; that
one of these men struck him on the head
with the handle of pistol, and that others
gathered bandfuls of dirt and forced 1t into
his mouth; that after the beating Theo-
bald eaid to him, "lf you do not join us
at the Grady echoolhouse at the ballot box
on election day, will kill you"
This man, Driver, who was very much
crippled and badly bruised from the beating
inflicted on him, he further stated that he
the fifth, travelling bv stealth through the
woods, and reached Monroe, q distance of
about eighteen miles, about noon of the
sixth. James Henry Colmau, colored,
stated to me that he was working on Mr..
Charles Tidwel's place, near St. James
Chapel, on the Island, in Ouachits par.
ish, Louisi ana ; that he boarded and lodged
in the house Of Henry Pinkston, in said
place. That about midnight of November
4, while sleeping there, laying on the floor
in front Of the fire, he heard large body
he raised and jumped ont of the rear win
dow and crept under the house, and re-
NAMED there concealed that the mount ted
men referred to, he thought about thirty or
forty in number, surrounded the house and
broke open the door that he heard strug-
gle inside the house, AMI saw Henry
Pinkston dragged outside by bis feet, and
shot to death near the rear corner Of his
house that atterward he heard another
ecuffls inside the house; also heard shots
fired and the Outcries OF Eliza Pinkston;
saw her dragged outside by her feet, and
saw her cut and stabbed while lying on the
ground, and that she was lett lying tn ere
naked, and, as he thought, dead; that the
moon was shining brightly, and he saw and
among those engaged in the mur.
der, Buck Baker, DR.. Young, 10 Swan,
John Collins and Dave It'd we'll, the son of
Charles Tidwtll. lie also stated that about
ten days previous to the occurrence above
Mr.. Charles Tidwen caused him
to be seized, stretched aud tied across a
cotton bale, in which condition and position
he was whipped in obedience to Mr.. It'd
wells orders, and in his presence, by the
colored foreman or boss, and that he was
then given about 100 lashes because of his
BobWillIams and Cora Williams, his wife,
colored, stated to me that they lived on
the Fluker place, about Ono mile beyond
the Grady School house, on the leland, in
Ouachita parish, Louisiana. That on the
night of Saturday, November 4, they heard
mounted men riding toward the house. Bob
Williams states that he ran out of his house,
secretipg himself in a corn field near it.
That these men GismOnnted, and after
surrounding his house, broke open the
door aud entered. Among those engaged in
this transaction he recognized Joe Turner,
and one Of the Logan boys, white, and
Tom Lyons and Bob Meakin, colored.
Cora Williams stated that the door of the
house was broken open. That George
Philips, Bill Rhodes, Walter Logan, Captain
Theobald, white, and Tom Lyons, colorec,
entered, dragged her from her bed and out
side the house, drew her night clothes over
her head, stuffed paper in her mouth to
silence her cries, compelled her place her
self on hands and feet-in which condition
and position she was whipped with leather
strap. receiving about seventy-fve lashes.
That her body was badly cut, bruised and
lacerated from the effect OF the beating.
That after they had ridden away, and che
returned to her bed, several of the men re.
turned, among them Walter Logan. who
entered the house, went to her bed, and
forcibly ravished her, holding pistol to
her head while doing so.
Itwas also reported to me that on the
came night the same body of armed men
broke open and entered the house Of an old
colored man named Abram Williams, living
on the Hughes place, dragging him from
his bed and from his house, stretching his
body on the ground, stripping of his shirt
and drawers and whipping his naked body
with leather strap, and on his attempting
to utter cries they silenced him by stamp.
ing with their feet his face and head, and
from the effects of the injuries thus re-
celved he was, at last advices confined to
his bed. o
Eliza Pinkstop, colored. stated to me in
Monroe, November 2l, 1876, that at abou: