Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-07-09
Eliza PinkstOn Retreats.

During the counting of the Presiden-
tial vote of Louisiana, in New Orleans.
before the returning board and the visit
ing statesmen, in November, 1876, con-
siderable excitement was caused by the
introduction, as the victim of and wit
ness to Savage democratic bulldoZing"
of a colored woman named Eliza Pink
ston. She had been severely wounded,
was apparently dying, was brought In to
give testimony lying on sofa or set
tee, and gave remarkably dramatic
statement to the effect that her hus-
band, Henry Pinkston, had been
dragged out of his cabin by gang of
democrats and murdered before her
eyes because he was prominent repub-
lican, and the same gang then hrutally
beat, cut and shot her. Mrs. Pinkston
shortly afterwards disappeared from the
public view, but it now turns out that
she recovered from her wounds and re-
moved to Madison county, Miss, where
she married Waymond Pritchard, a re-
spectacle colored man. The New York
Herald publishes an affidavit from Eli
ga. in which she states under oath:
First-That she was induced to appear
DcIOT6 CuG IcluTuluS OOdiu SuG ltldAc
the statement there given by two re-
publicans, O. HI. Brewster and Dink-
grave, the former of whom was presi-
Dental elsatgr.
| Second-f'hat she received for her tes-
| timony and the part she acted OH that
occasion $500, a very large sum of money
to a woman in her condition and she
now swears that of this money she took
$50 in hand and allowed the remainder
to lie in the hands Of Brewster, from
whom she says she has never been able
to get it back.
| Third-She denies that her husband
ever took any part as republican in
politics, and asserts that he Was engaged
in quarrel with a colored man, having
no relation to politics, and that, while
she does not know who killed her hus-
band and wounded herself, she believes
it was this colOred man also that, con-
trary to the testimony she gave before
the returning board, she never knew
who committed the outrage.
=Fourth-Thats she was brought by re-
publicans from her home to New Or
leans and instructed by them to
pretend that she was more seriously
hurt than she was, and also instructed
/ to lay the blame of the killing and as
sault on the democrats.
Fifth-That, So far from being unable
to walk, she had walked, on the days
before giving her testimony, considera-
BILE distances, as we'll as up and down
! the custom house stairs in New Orleans !;
that og the day of her appearance be-
fore the returning beard she walked up
the stairs, but was induced 10 lie down
on sofa and allow herself to he carried
into the room to produce the greater im-
preston.
Waymond Pritvhar'i Eiiza's present
husband, makes an affidavit confirming
his wife's story H. being that which she
has always told him since ne married.
her Mr.. w. J. Mosby, the owner of the
farm on which Pritchard and his wife
reside, also makes oath that Eliza has
always, since being his tenant, told the
story in regard to this affair as testified
in the affidavit F. Wharton Collins, a
stenographic reporter, in a sworn state
ment testifies that in the St Charles
Hotel, New Orleans. 4le heard Hon.
JOIN Sherman 'laugh hilariously"
about the PinkGtGn testimony, and re-
mark to the Hon job Stevenson, of
Cincinnati, that it twas iaughabIe to
see how Gov. Bigler ia democrat) had
| taken in the whole thiuvO