Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06
CHARLES TIpWELL.


of Ouachita, a witness in re5uttal "a
the testimony Of Mrs. Eliza Pinkston,
testified In substance As follows Have
known Eliza Pinks.on for eighteen OF
twenty years character is very bad
knew her in Alabama she belonged to
my family; knew Henry Pinkston
did not know much of him have
known him for about tive years in a
general way; be was very quiet ne
gro bis wife came to my house about
five O'Clock on Sunday morning and told
me four or FIVE negroes bad come to her
house and killed her husband and beat
her nearly to death aud killed her child,
and after it got daylight l went down
there and saw him he was dead
asked what had been done with me
child she said she had laid it in the
cradle, but the child vas not there; l
don't know anything abou. threats
having been made BY henry Pinkston
only what the niggers said had q
conversation with Mrs Pinkston as to
the murder of her husband; she told
me there we're five or six niggers came
to the house and took Pinkston out and
killed him, aud tried to kill her aud the
child she was bleeding pretty smart /;
| supJ ose i: was about two hours from
the first to the second conversation !;
she then told me that if it was not
Brooks friends from Ouach:ta she
thought it was Parks or Posey's mig
gers that they were Radicals and she
was aIabid Democrat, and thought they
came there for the purpose of killing
her that was the idea she wanted to
give me ; sent for doctor, who came
and waited on her /; Levi Parks and \
man named Armstrong came 70 my
house after dinner, and we went up to
see her; l asked her in toe presence OF
them if she knew who killed PinSston
aud who shot her, and she said there
we're about fifteen or twenty white men
who came there and attempted to kill
him she went to other places and teld
different story; understood that she
SAYS William Parker was one Of the
killers, and he has been dead for three
months. Air. PinkstOn took very little
part in politics and stood very well with
the white people be sometimes got
drunk, but | never saw him intoxicated
to such an extent as to make him impu-
dent; never heard him mention pol
itics in my life, and never mentioned
politics to him took very little part
in politics myself. After she received
the wounds she walked three quarters
of mile to my house, and after the
Doctor attended her, Mr.. Parks, and
the other man went up to see her in
tha evening; she said she was pretty
well, and the mex, day she was down at
my house. | don't think she was ever
confined day the body of the child
was found, bu. saw no marks cf auy
kind on it except one or two little
places on the cheek, which looked as
though the black part had been cut off
the body was found about two hundred
yards from the house, in the lake; as
soon as l attended to Eliza, between
daylight and sunrise, / went down to
her house and found Henry Pinkston
lying about twenty steps from the door
he was naked, except that he had on
his undershirt, but 1t was slipped up
about his back found he had bali
through the side of his head and one in
the thigh and one in the stomach, two
in the legs aud one in the forehead he
was dead be wasnot mutilsted there
was not the slightest scratch upon him
except the marks; had clothes thrown
oTes him, and went TO see if we could
not get somebody TO 90 and see some
thing about the matter; Of course l
had him buried The cross examina-
tiOn was continued at great length.