The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1879-01-23
THAT INVESTIGATION.


Messrs. Jonas and Marks, the representatives
OF the Teller subcommittee came together at
noon yesterday In the room In the Custom
house previously used by the committee
Mr.. Jonas stated that no answer had been re-
cetved to the dispatch asking for the permls-
sion OF the COMMITTEES to 70 outside the writ
ten instructions and examine witnesses from
Natchitochos whose names had not been In
cluded In the list left by the committee An
other dispatch had. however. been sent. this
time addressed to Senator Garland. ut Wash
inRton. and an answer was expected during
the day.
II was decided to examine some OF the wit
| nesses regularly subp1naed. and
MRS. AMY l.. PECK
was called and sworn: reside In Catahoua
parish. Ny husband, John O. Peck. was killed
on the. twelfth Of uctober, 1873 Bis death oc-
parish l6e same DAY be was killed. He went
oss sree q Tinsss wanted edarsh n q sns a. ssys h s
said be. would return that night. The store
st ks y 81. Fssry Sss,6 never saw him again
about 10 o'clock, u, when he left me. he had
epy intention Of going further than the store,
did not know i. DO not know sheriff Hes!s-
our house. have looked through nv husband's
gapers Tor Q, a the letters the conmittee desired.
at which my husband was killed / was very iii
at the time. and made no Inquiries about IT,
For three weeks after l was at the point OF
MI. Marks received a dispatch just after the
wifness concluded. signed by Senator Teller,
Witnesses on each side might be examined, AZ
ter g some sl discussion. during R Ehich M Mr. Jonas
wd wh The # ssm
on the stand. Mr. Marks said. II construe this
dispatch to mean that each side ean examine
| must not exceed six."'.
| tion.
WINNIE MILLER tCoLoRED)
was next placed on the. stand. live IN
Waterproof Tensas parish, ON Morses plan.
~fs asss he fsfsF es se Gt' se sss
Gordlli and Mr.. Heester arrested nv. hus:
hung % and and H. % %cther had @ s BIN Rea teHea
down and buried. Mr.. Morse and Mr.. Wise
os Jass 6ois and and M hRsp
were both with my husband when he was car
ried 70 the swamp where hs was hung. First
When arrested be was helping to sayethe cotton
IN the burned gin, Ny husband end myself had
Thsrs n ssen r % %
Oordll and Mr.. Register when my husband was
oRoss-ExAMIsEp.
W Il
do not know who set II aflre. Ny husband was
accused Of IT, Don't know why Il was burned.
M. Register ls ( tall I spare man. rather darker
than M. Register. and has red Burnside Wills.
kers. was told my husband was first carried
mile from him. The rst @ time incl saw aneo any Of n be
men men who arrested him was when met Mr..
the evening with NJ Register Tsere oSsa wns com
siderable excitement previous to the burning OF
hs because TIE y white people were tips on
how ' he nHs There we're scog
many colored men went uc. to Bass lane that
band was not With ,he coored men y Base lane.
for about two years. He bas Q black nous
Oordill IN this city. e's- '''''- '''' - '''S'
colored. sworn: l. live on Mr.. Kemp's place. In
Tensas parish; know they killed my hus-
B he Ok G% Sut fnoS o
bis potato patch. There we're about q dozen OF
red him thro1s to Mr.. Hayes ayes sid. out ss beyond ont
MI. Carrtgan's place. and there they hung him.
know he was hnpg because he was buried.
was hung. I don't know, what be had done.
He sat outside Of Mr.. CarTtgan's with pistol IN
bis hand. and I suppose Mrs. Farriday told her
Was sf seae short & distance as from
my husband when he was taken. / did not hear
the white men accuse him Of anything. After
they hung him they said he bad a pi tol aud
had frghtened Mrs. Farridt ~ very bad. He was
not In the Waterproof riots,
HENRIETTA WILLIAMS COLONEL
Live In Tensas parish, My husband was hung. |
Tommy Kemp and two other men came and got |
him. This was two weeks before election. Don't |
know why he was hung. He was about fifteen |
Yards from the house when arrested. The three |
W., white y men zen Who took him n had guns. They took
miles below Greenbrier. Tommy Kemp, one OF
the men who took hin, came and got a wagon
rested him had no paper. They lust tied his
hands benipd him and carried him OF.
p To Col. Leyy-Do not know how old Tom
Kent fs. he ts young man. knew him we'll. |
do not know the two men who were with him. |
Never heard why he was arrested. or why he
gin was Burned. We lived about two miles from ON
Waite rproof at the time OF the riots.
SOLOMON BUTLER tCoLoRED).
Reside In Tensas parish. About two weeks
before election my house Was visited by
the door. They asked for that wounded man,
and told them be was down at another house.
Tnsy es'nsd s 5 They told
as hard as j could % the house ] where the the
him tines and then s pulled ssf him out Of Saos the
bed and cut his throat. After that they told me
to oSd e. home Sa and Sttsnd to my and
miles to do what they had. had never eeen
them Ia the parish before. and have never seen
them since.
The name of the wounded man was Jim
Stafford. He was wounded on Thursday night
a. Wrenn's store. He was killed on Saturday
night. Stafford had a family. his wife aud
children. who were In the room at the time he
was killed. His children were In the bed with
him. He was shot with pistol. The man who
did the shooting was SO close that S'afford's
clothes were set on fire. / en- going back to the
parish of Tensas. / voted. No one told me
how to vote. and voted the first ticket got
which was given me by colored man. was
not afraid to vote. II / knew the names of the
four men who killed stafford would tell them
To Col Levy-I lived about three miles from
Waterproof. Louis Postlewaite was shot at
Wrenn's store the night Stafford was wounded
Postlewaite was killed. Never heard how the
affair came about. Don't know much about
Stafford's character.
VIM COOLIDGE tCoLoRED)
Reside In Tensas parish. Told the old
story OF the circumstances which led the col
ored men to support the Bland ticket. Told all
the reports current at the time Peck was killed
and also about the rides OF buldozers which