Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-12-29

back the next day and searched the
house, fields and adjacent woods for him.
Failing to find him, Keebold told wit
ness to tell Eaton to come and see him
the next morning, or he would consider
him his enemy and kill him, as he had
heard that Logwood wanted the negroes
to arm and whip his (Keebold's) compa-
ny. They then left.
SHOCKING BARBARITIEs.
On the 10th of September was sitting
on the bed in the house and heard gun
fred got up and started to the door
met Eaton, who said, "Give me my
gun !" I told him to run, which he did
Just then / heard another shot, and 60
ing out at the door met my brother-in-
law, Primus johnson, with his baby in
his arms, who said: "Oh, my poor sis
ter, I'm killed and fell down and
died. Here witness burst into tears.
After a moment she continued He
was shot in the side; did not see the
man who did the shooting; johnson was
sitting on lumber pile in the front
yard when shot; he was Baptist min
ister; after her husband returned, Cap
tain Keebold came to see him said he
was sorry for him and sent for the doctor
to dress his wounds (; Captain Phillips
and three other white men also came to
see him; her husband asked the Gov
ernment troops at Munroe for protection
and they guarded him eleven days after
ward and then took him to Munroe her
husband had twenty-three acres of land
and some cattle; he had four balls in
his shoulder, one in arm and one in the
right side.
REVOLVING ATROCITIES.
At the evening session Cora Williams
(colored) of the first ward, Ouachita par
ish, testifed-Wa at a republican meet
ing at Grady's school house four days
before election; Henry Pinkston and my
husband were there, standing side by
side Pinkston cried, Three cheers for
Brewster l was whipped severely by
bull.dozers the same night; Marion
Rhodes body was brought by George
Phillips and others came in, struck a
match, and searched the house for my
husband after they left. Thomas Lyon
said it would have been proper to give
me hi, and make me tell; they came
back, four of them, and took me out and
whipped me with trace from buggy
Geo. Phillips, Bill Rhodes and man
named Black did the whipping then
they went down to my brother-in-law's
house and whipped him; then came
back and asked me about my husband
Walter Logan then put pistol on the
bed, and made me put out the light anC
go to bed with him after he left saw
Thomas Lyons coming back with shov
Ell, and saw him burying Marion Rhodes
in the bank of the bayou after they
left the last time heard firing down to
ward Henry Pinkston's, which was foul
miles away /; heard early next morning
that Pinkston was killed
The men who did the whipping wer
democrats; had seen them riding abou
day and night; these men belonged t,
Bill Keebold's company he was on tn
road where they whipped me and said
give her hi, but don't let her holler
He gave Rhodes some paper, which h
stuffed into my mouth these men or
ganized the first day of August. Geo
Phillips blindfolded me; l asked hin
not to whip me. DR.. Kennedy said Civ
her hi. DIR. Potts was there; afte
they gave me two hundred he said
Boys, that's enough, she's not able t.
take what she ought to have. Will
Frasier lived near me heard him grunt
ing when they whipped him. Mariol
Rhodes had stopped and told me good
by the night he was killed said he wa
going to the swamp they brought hin
back tied to horses tail he was groan
ing j; the moon was shining and could Sc
him plainly. My husband was in tn
cornfeld near by and he came in mex
day and then went to Munroe and wait
ed till / came. They hunted for hin
three days and nights after he left.
The blacks in my neighborhood wer
republicans, but were afraid to vote tn
ticket because the democrats were armet
around the polls. The whites huntet
for Jim Thomasson and others. Kee
bold said as we were going to the repub
lican meeting that be would cripple eve
ry male child in the parish if he did no
carry the parish. Abram Williams, m,
tather-in-law, living near me, was whip
ped and beaten the same night / wa
whipped. / saw him the next mornin,
| lying in bed all bloody. The Hesh wh'
whipped me said they wanted my hus
band because he wouldn't go in thei
club Walter Logan was the only on
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