The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-12-07
Turkish Horrors EcliDSed.
The ChiValric Southern Democrat
can Beat the Sioux or the Turk
at Horrible Atrocities.
Read the Particulars.

Some weeks since we mentioned
the shooting of Henry Pinkston
(colored) and his wife Eliza, and the
killing of their babe one year old, in
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, but it was
hooted at by Democrats as cam
paign lie, and by many thought to be
electioncering capital. The bodies
of Pinkston and the babe were found
soon after the murder, but the body
of his wife disappeared. Itnow trans
pires that after suffering enough to
kill dozen women, she turns up
alive, covered with wounds, yet un-
healed, and she a. peared before the
election board in New Orleans, last
Tuesday, and gave her testimony,
which we give below as sent North
by both Democratic and Republican
papers. She is but one of dozens of
witnesses, and her case is but one Of
thousands in that State, and tens of
thousands in the God-forsaken South
where anegro is but little better than
when in slavery. But read the hor-
rible story:
THE TERRIBLE STORY AS TOLD BY HER
SELF.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 29.-Yester-
day afternoon, Eliza Pinkston (color-
od), one of the witnesses, was brought
on the stand in a chair, by a couple
of colored men, attended by a colored
woman. The witness was sworn,
and in answer to questions testified
that she lived in Ouachita Parish, near
Hugh Young's place; her husband,
Henry Pinkston, was killed about
daylight; was in the house and in
bed when the murderers attacked him.
DR.. Young was the first one that
knocked at my door they all rode by,
thirty or forty of them, and they said:
ais Henry in? A friend has come to
guide him to Monroe" "But, doctor,
you are not Henry's friend )" l said,
and peeped through a crack as Earlier
burst the door open; Captain Craig
criedsout, "Gag him he votes the rad
ical ticket, he may vote in hell. lie
has voted it thus far and he may woe
it no further" They came into the
house and gagged him-that is, when
they cut him on the leg; said, "Oh,
Lord, don't kill my husband, that is
all I've got" One man struck me in
the face with a pistol, using the vilest
epithets. | said, that is my husband;
| grabbed DR.. Young, and he stuck
me with his pistol and knocked me
down on the hearth. The witness
said there were several others be-
sides; WAS Il stranger III that parish;
| knOwcd no more than one which
each other called by name, Frank
Derms; | know him because he had
his nLse off, he WAS The only one and
Capt. Teboult that I knowed person
ally; they tied his legs together and
dragged him out of the door and shot
him seven times; they tied a pocket
handkerchief over his mouth every
time he was shot he drew his breath.
Henry was an active Republican, and
was killed on that account, because
he was a Republican. They finally
got him, Tiboult said "give him hell,
he will vote no more radical tickets,
he will vote in hell" The doctor
the same man that shot Henry-shot
me once. Some of them, | didn't
know who they were, had dealings
with me, and one spoke to another,
81 want some of that" They held
my legs and jumped on me.
President Wells-Did you see them
that hotyou?
Witness-Ycs, sir. They shot me
twice. When they came in the
house they told me to put my baby
down l told them no, sir; what do
you want to kill me for? / am
nothing but woman. If you kill
me kill the whole of US. They cut
my baby's throat from ear to ear; /
raised my hands and let my baby
fall they wanted to take something
from me before they killed me; two
of them had dealing with me (raped
herr | ran under the bed when one
shot me in the leg; l again ran underthe
bed, and they caught me by the leg
and pulled me out and broke the bed !;
they cut me with an AK; ono man
said, off you are going TO kill the wo-
man, don't be bothering with her,"
and they wanted to kill me, and he
struck at me with knife; l struck him,
and it few up, and they never saw it
again ; they got another knife, and
they cut and stabbed me, and they
cut me on the legs with an AK, and
on the side.
At this point the woman unfasten-
ed her dress and exposed her breast,
which was all cut up, and WIS most
horrible sight. The effort of the ex-
animation caused her to faint, and
the examination was therefore delay
ed for few moments, until she had
recovered.
She resumed-They threw my
child's body in the lake, and we did
not find it again under eleven days.
Odd many colored voters have
to leave their homes at night, through
fear of these armed men riding over
the parish at night? Ans.-Yes, sir !;
l went to heap of peoples houses and
they were lying out in the woods to
keep from the bull-dozers; two start
ed up to the gin house; both were
women; when they threw my hus-
band down they put knife through
and through him you could hear the
knife grinding like you cut new
leather, Capt. Leboult told somebo-
dy to jerk his arms out; he was cut
down below (meaning emascalated)
and CUT in the ear.
You stated in your answer that
they had treated you improperly in
regard to your person, that they had
improper intercourse with you !;
was that before or after You
were shot? Answer-That was be-
fore was shot. They did this, and
they asked the boys if any more of