The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-11-07

knife lying In the boat open ana
bloody. That knife marked al is the
Same one found in the boat picked
1t up. Adeline lived about half an
hour after she was cut.
VOLUNTARY STATEMENT OF THE
ACCUSED.
went over to Mr.. Lazare's yester-
day. with the intention of talking to
my wife, iAdeline Redding. can't
see how-it happened that cut her. 1
staid over there Saturday night last.
morning. staid in Monroe about one
hour and a half. was with some fell
lows drinking. was with Henry
Taylor, Frank Lishner, Burrell Key,
aud Mi. Dave Williams he treated me
some. 1 then went back to Mr.. La
xare's. I went to George Brooks
house. Adeline Redding was at
George Brooks house. 1 called her
and told her to meet me under the
river bank. She asked me what
wanted, and / told her I wanted to talk
with her. She came about half way
down the bank. told her wanted
her to be pacified and not let her nina
be disturbed about the fuss me and her
had had. We had a fuss Wednesday
or Tuesday of last week about her
running away from me. don't know
why she run. away from me-we had
had no words. Her cousin carried her
| of. Charlie Pratt was the cousin.
Alter I had talked to her under the
bank, l went up to George Brooks
house with her. She said tsthe devil"
one time and she cursed once or twice.
said, "Honey, you Oughtn't to talk
that way wait and hear what have
got to say" When we got to the
house I sat there talking to her, and
she kept throwing up her hands and
telling me to go away. told her
was not meaning any harm I just
wanted to talk with her. She said
some more words, but I don't remem-
Der what. She said she would go to
Mr.. Lazare II didn't let her alone.
There was man in the house lying
across the bed when we went in, but
he jumped up and went out. don't
know how cut her. 1 cut with my
pocket knife. 1 don't know what
made me cut her. don't know where
I cut her. had no reason to believe
that she had been unfaithful to memo
further than coming away from me.
There was no struggle between US be-
fore cut her. We were both standing
when cut her. I had hold of her
hand, think with my right hand.
She was not struggling to get loose
from me. She was standing near my
side, think. She was about two or
three feet from me. When cut her I
was not making any effort to catch
hold of her. There was nobody pres
emit that I know of when cut her.
did not hear her say anything after
1 cut her. The knife marked Al is
about the same size and appearance OF
the one cut her with. 1t looks just
like my knife.
I don't know what did when I cut
her. I came down to get in the skif
and fell out of it. was coming over
to Monroe to deliver myself to Mr..
Vinson or Mr.. Logan. One man came
trOtting down the hill after me with d
gun. He said he'd shoot me, and
.halloed to some people on this side tC
stop me. They headed me off, and
turned down the river. turned down
the river because the people on this
side had guns, and the one on the Other
side was hallOing stshoot him." My
idea was to get around them and de-
liver myself up. When got to the
top of the bank on this side the river,
two white men came up and told me
to surrender. don't know who they
were. didn't try to run when saw
them.
The critic of the New Orleans Ger
man Gazette in noticing Haverly's
original Georgia ministries, which Were
playing at the st. Charles Theater ir
that city last week, suggests:
The negroes, who last week playet
their MINISTRIES with so much success a
the st. Charles Theater, brings us to M
unusual idea. If such can happen will
Georgia negroes why should it no