Year: 1876

lOpeciaI Dlspatcn 10 the Chlcago Tribune.


NEW OELEANs, Nov. 26.-There ar
rived in this city to day number of
witnesses from Ouachita parish who
present most pitiful spectacle, and
whose stories are awful that persons
who cannot see them and hear them
tell their own tales would be justified
in incredulity. They were brought
down by military escort, with United
States Deputy Marshal, and there was
no little difficulty in getting them
away from the parish. Among them
is Ben James, The United States De-
putty Marshal who was shot while car
rying the ballot-box to the Log-Town
poll on the morning of the election and
jeff fer dead. He has two bullet wounds
in his head, two wounds in his right
arms which is broken, and one in the
hip. Another is


ELIZA PINKSTON,


whose husband, Henry Pinkston, and
whose badly were murdered by a band
of bull-dOzers on the Saturday preced-
ing the election. Eliza Was present,
and saw her husband cut all to pieces
in his own house, and his body drag
ged out and shot full of bullets after he
was dead. The baby was killed in her
arms. She has bullet wound in her
breast, which passed through her lung
and out OF her back, q deep cash from q
knife in her neck, a bullet-WOund in
one leg, a cut with knife from the
hip nearly to the knee, and her head is
covered with wounds, one of which
was given with the but-end of pistol,
and the other with an ak. The cords
in one of her feet are also served. She
was left for dead, and how she has sur.
vived SO long seems to be miracle, as
tor two or three weeks she has been al
most constantly hunted by the Tilden
men who murdered her husband and
babe.


HENRY PINKsTON


is represented as a cOlored man some-
what different for the majority in that
he seemed incapable of fear. The bull
dOzers had been to him several times
to get him to join Democratic club,
but he mad openly declared that he
would do nothing of the kind, and
when threatened, took no pains to con-
ceal his contempt for the bull-dOzers,
and said he was afraid of none of them.
On


THE SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE


ELECTION


Eliza states that she heard body of
hOrsemen stop in front of their house,
and a man came to the door whose
voice she recognized, and said he was
Brewster, Republican candidate for the
Legislature, and that he had made ar
rangements TO have him (Pinkston)
safely conducted to Monroe, where he
could vote the Republican ticket on
election day. She said: mo, you are
not Mr.. Brewster. Henry is not here"
They then broke i'm the door, and called
out, "Gag him! God damn him! gag
him!" And the room was filled with
armed men, who with their knives
stabbed her husband till, as she said,
his body was filled with holes, and the
blood dropped like water upon the
floor. They then dragged him out,
and shot him gIeat many times after
ward. A man said to her, "Eliza, put
down that baby" She said: "If you
are going to kill me, kill my baby too.
A man then with his knife


CUT THE BABY's THROAT,


at the same time cutting Eliza's hand,
which was thrown up to guard the
child. She was then cut and shot and
left for dead. When she came to her
senses she had not stitch of clothes
left on her back, and she went to many
of the colored peoples cabins, but most
of them were afraid to give her shelter,
for fear of the vengeance of the bull
dOzers who were huting her. Her
story Is almost beyond belief, but her
wounds are ehere to testify more elo-
quently than words.


ANOTHER WITNEcS,


James Henry Coleman, a colored man,
was under the house when Pinkston
was kill, having jumped out of win
dow. After the men left who killed
Pinkston he crawled out, but was ia
ken on the road by the same party. A
rope was placed about his neck, and he
dragged down to the river, and he be-
lieves that 1t was the intention to down
him, but shot was fired, and the
party, for some reason, gallOped off
and left him.


| STILL ANOTHER.


Joe Sheldon has bullet in his breast,
and his hand Is all shot to pieces. He
states that this course was taken to in.
duce him to join Democratic club
and he was shot two weeks before the
election. He did finally vote for I'll.
den and Reform at the rrrninu poll. A
man named Willie Howard, WIN Is II
leading Democrat and who denounced
Congressmen-elsct Leonard and At
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