The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-12-02

maa manned. As to the. babe, there was
reason to doubt found, also, that the
WOMAN immediately alter the murder,
said tho murdefcrs were negroes, anu
that politics aud white men Had nothing
70 DO with 1t ;,fhat one oi the niea whom
she charged with the crime had been
dead three months, that another was
! miles awaysthat she had told three con-
Trajectory stories about the occurrence,
that she was woman of violent temper,
and "a rabla Democrat, while her hus-
band had once voted the Democratic
! ticket; that-ehe wa. under indictment for
murder, ssd.- flmliy.. that none of the
most revolving circumstances attending
the crime were made known until she
| fell into the hands OF the eustom-houSc
people. After these disclosuresI was not
inclined to take much stock in the story
las a case OF political intimidation.
Tonight the Democratic witnesses
from Onachita arrived. Among them
are several OF the whites who are now ac-
\ cuscd of the crime, and they all utin-
vestigation. talked with Mr.. Tidwell.
on whose place Pinkston lived. lie Is n
venerable gentleman, who takes little in
terest in politics. lie gives a very good
character to Pinkston, but a very bad
one to his wife. She had been in prison
for some petty oflense. and had confessed
attempting to murder her mother-in-
IL, oh eha 81 L..
lady had aggravated her, she said. and so
she threwa quilt over her head and beat
her with rocks until she thought her
dead. Tidwcll says when she came to
his house on the morning of the murder,
she said that negro with whom her hus-
band had had a fight did it: later in the
day, that Radical negroes from neighhor-
ing plantations did it, because she Mrs.
Pinkston) was such a Democrat in the
evening, that twenty-five white men
were the murdercrS. He examined the
body of the deceased. and 1t was not mu-
tilated, as charged in her statement to-
day. He also fished the baby's body out
OF the lake, and its throat was not cut,
nor was there any marks on it. She
told him that she went to the help of her
husband with the baby in her arms. and
II was struck and killed in the scutlle.
Nobody in the neighborhood had heard
a political complexion given to the out
rage, until the story came from New
Orleans.
Other gentlemen with whom talked
| are ready to testify that Eliza Pinkston
was rabld Democrat, and they heard
| her curse Republican speaker in open
meeting, just before the election, in Ian
guage unfit for publication, aiterward
trying to borrow Il pistol TO shoot him.
All attempts TO connect politics with this
affair fan 10 the ground, and say it after
careful investigation begun with the alb
hOrrence OF such an outrage, and the
conviction that it was crime chargeable
to the Democrats.
GOV. PALMER On THE OUTRAGE
SPECIAL TO the Courier-Journal.)
NEW ORLEANS. Now. a9.-The Even
ing Democrat accuses John Raw, Frank
Morey and .. II. Brewster OF having put
| up the Pinkstou case, and declares that
| the facts OF their past career prove them
! to be capable of such crime. The re-
ports sent from here in regard to Gov.
Palmer's position and views do great in
justice to that gentleman. | called on
Gov. Palmer to-day, and obtained from
him statement which will efiectually
set at rest the injurious reports. He
said.
|. II is unquestiopale that the Pinhston
murder had no. connection with politics.
The testimony shows conclusive!y that
| the assault was prompted by purely per-
sonal motives (; that the man was well cs.'
| teemed among his white Eeighoors was
in no sense an active politician, and had
| never given any cause tor resentment
against him ON the part-of thesxhites.
The probabilities, rs indicated by the res.
timony, are that the murder was com.
mitted by Alex. Brooks and his friends,
Brooks being negro, between whom
and Pinkston deadly feud had existed.
did say that the question presented by
this case was one entirely disconnected
with the presidency, from Illden, from
Hayes and from political controversies,
that it was question which appealed to
humanity. and that / did not wish
to live where such things coulnd happen
without being made the subject Of inyes-
tigation, and where the authorities took
no measures TO punish the guilty perpe.
traitors. Il declared, and still declare,
that il was the duty Of that board to caste
aside all political considerations and to
| make a thorough Investigation OF this
Ease. suggested that they ought to
designate one member TO sit in private, if
necessary, to hear the testimony, to fix
the guilt where il belongs, and to give
the accused persons am opportunity to eX-
| culpatc themselves. One of the worst
features OF the affair was the refusal OF
the board TO permit this thorough inves-
| tigation. and the strenuous attempt to ex-
clude all testimony on the Democratic
( side. So determined was this effort that
ii necessarily led to the Inference that the
| persons who put forward the story dis
believed it themselves, as far as its politl.
cal aspects were concerned. think that
Gov. Wells himself believes it to be false
am thoroughly convinced that the white
men accused by the negroes had nothing
at all to do with the affair, and that as to
them the story Is pure fiction.
Coy. Bigler thoroughly coneurs with
Gov. Palmer's views In relation to the
political aspects of the case. Mr.. Smith
has the same opiAion.
Mr. Julian says they played the wench
too much for dramatic effect: that she
seems 10 be halt idiot and half maniac,
and that the case has absolutely broken
drown. This is the opinion of all Impair
tial people. The most moderate of the
Republican committee confess that the
attempt TO give political complexion 70
the case has utterly failed.
THE oUACHITA CASE AGHIN TAKES UP.
The board to-day took up the Ouachita