The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-04-01

may state that Mr.. Brown appeared
before tide court Monday sick with the
mumps, and is suffering painfully.
The first witness called to the stand
was Susan Davis. Susan is the woman
for whose removal the wagons were
sent. Neither her appearance nor her
manner of giving testimony were inn
pressive. Her testimony covers ~
pages of foolscap, and cannot be pub
lished, for the reasons given hereto
fore. She was ut home when the
wagons came, and they drove into the
yard, through a place in the fence then
down, at her request, she testified.
She had agreed to go to Wallace's
house, a colcred man on Judge Lude-
ling's place y but had made no con-
tract with either Judge Ludeliug Or
Mr.. Stubs. She had lived with Mr..
Stubs some five, or six years, but had
done no work, as she was not able to
work.
Susan's testimony went on through.
out the afternoon, contradicting her.
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dance by her answers now and then,
and annoying the attorneys on both
sides by irrelevant answers and by
complaints of sickness. She testified
that she was present at the shooting,
that Mr.. w. Il. Mitchner fired the first
shot and that she was then so scared
that she ran in the cabin from the
gallery, where she was standing, when
the shooting commenced; the guns
were roaring, she testified, and she
stepped to the door and saw Mr.. Lude-
ling fall, and she got so scared she
could tell no more. Cross-cXamina-
ton followed, plainly to Susan's dis
comtiture, but the relevant points we
are unable TO give, following this in
vestigation hurriedly, as wc are com
PEELED to do.
| Wednesday was occupied in the eX-
animation of Kitty Leon, Matilda
Davis, a small colored boy and r.. nj.
Scott, a young white man living with
cution. The last-naned witness testi-
fed that on the morning of the tragedy
he met on the Monroe and Bastrop
road Geo. Mitchner, Linton Stubs,
Kirkpatrick and Brown they We're
all riding, and had shot guns. Some
half-an-hour after he heard shooting in
the direction of the scene of the hOmi-
eide. Witness testified that he was al
the time on the Stubs place removing
hands, Mr.. w. b. Mitchner having
given his consent that the hands could
leave. He, Scott, carried with him
the money to pay VIVA: the hands
owed the place. Witness said ho had
been on the place two or three times
removing hands, and once had his
wagon loaded, but w. B. Mitchner re-
fused to let the hand leave because he
had not settled.
The court will he occupied several
days in the investigation. The State
has several witnesses yet CThnrsday)
ton of Mr.. Dinkgrave will probably
| be lengthy, after which, Witnesses for
the accused, of whom there are several,
will be called.
We take real pleasure in repeating
that the progress of the investigation is
marked with tho greatest respect for
law and that nothing has TRANSFERRED to
detract from the gravity of the occ;,-
sion or to embittcr the feelings OF the
parties directly interested or those OF
| fhnit fri vi, 70, ~, e,
universally regretted and in this COM
munity and there is deep sympathy for
both sides. The effort elsewhere to at.
tach political Importance to the matter
is regarded here, in view of the real
| character, origin and results of the
tragedy, rs too absurd for notice or tie
NAL.
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