Year: 1876

hours from tho first to the second con-
versati0D; she then told me that if it
was not Brooks friends from Ouachiss, she
thought it was Parks or POses' niggers;


that they were Radicals and that she was q
| rsbid Democrat, and she thought they
came there for the purpose of killing
her; that was the idea she wanted to give
me; l sent for q physici An who came and
waited on her, and aft dinner Levi Parks
and man by the asme of e Armstrong came
to my house; after dinner we went up to see
her, and asked her. in the presence Of
them, if che knew who killed PlnkstOn and
who shot her, and she said there we're about
fifteen or twenty white men that came
there and attempted to kill him; she


vent to other places and told e
says that William Parker was one
of the killers, and he has been Gead fer
three months; she attempted on enc ocea-
sion to get rid Of her child she had been to
q neighbOr's house and was coming home
and threw her child in the corner of q fence
where there we're come briars; it was missed
and some OF the niggers went to hunt Tor IT;
this all since freedom; it was a neighbours
niger that found it; he refused to give 1t
up; suppose shs threw it there: she says


she did not, but that a Digger woman had
stolen il; the last one l know but little


about only what my wife said che said, that
Eliza had destroyed it; she might have de-


strOyed it, bu. don't know; we all attended
Republican meeting at st. James Chapel
and she WAS there; q mula man was


standing in the wagon speaking; he was
talking q good deal about the Democrats,
anu che wanted to be in good favor with
the Democrats, aud she remarked to some
gentlemen if they would give her pistol
she would shoe. the heart out OF the damned
Radical; l heard her ray Sd myself; Mr..
Pinkston took very little part in politics,
and stoOd very we'll with the white people;
he come times got drunk. but l never saw
him intoxicated to such an extent that it
would make him imPudent; l never heard
him mention politics in my life, Ior
never mentioned politics to him; l
took very little part in politics my
cell; after she received the wounds
she walked three-q uarters of mile to my
house, and after the physician attended
her MIR. Parks, and the other man went
up to see her in the evening; she was sit
ting on mat that she had been laying on,
with something spread over her head; she
said she was pretty well, and the next day
she was down at my house; don't think
che was ever confined . day; would see
her sitting in the kitchen and walking down
the road; have seen her have bark in her
arlsst least two or three days after she
was hurt; the 5ody of the child was found,
but l saw no marks Of any kind on it ex-
cept one or two little places on its cheek.
which looked as though the black part had
been cut off; it was not as big as plea
yune, but NO meat or anything of that sort
was taken OF; the body was found about
200 yards from the house, in the lake;
a. soon as l attended to Eliza a little,
some time between dayl light and sunrise,
went down to her hOuse and found Henry
PiDkston lying about twenty steps from the
door: he was naked, except he had on his
undershirt, but it was slipped up abOut the
back; ! found he had ball through the
side of his head, and one in the thigh and
| one in the stomach, two in the legs and one
in the forehead; he was dead; he was
not mutilated; there was not the slightest
scratch upon him except the marks: l had
| cloth thrown over him, to zee it We could
not get somebody to 20 and see something
about it; of course l had him buried.
President Wells-Was the coroner mott.
| fed of his death!


Arswer-I don't know, sir; don't know
that there were any attempts made to
| ferret out the murderers; there were .
| few white men came to my house and
asked me about it; they went around the
neiehborhood and made inquiries, but no.
body knew anything about it; there was no
action taken about the corpse that know
of; l don't know whether Eliza Pinkston
knows Jim Logan or not. but l Think she


does not, for hs was never at my house but
once, and she was not there then; she never
went to Monroe, where he lives; her repu-
tation for truth and veracity is about as
| bad as it can be; l don't know that she
would tell the truth if che knew 1t; she ls
perfect tiger when che gets mad; che could
| no more control herself than ything you
might imagine; she would fight buck saw
and it in motion; she would fight dozen
as quick as she would one; she would never
language; she looked like she was crazy.
President Wells-You said you lett her
in Alabama.


Answer-Yes, sir.


Question-How long have you resided
| herss


Answer-Four years.


Question-How did sho come from Ala
bana! Do you know!


Answer-Colonel Morrison imported her
to the State; she lived with Colonel
Morrison; che left him and came to my
place; they say that she had q dificul1
with her mother in-law; she told me she had
thrown q Quilt around her m0ther-in-law
and had beaten her to death and had run
away: l had daughter in Bastrop, and
when my daughter came home she came
with her.





from your house at the time of the deed!


Answer-About three quarters of a mile.


Question-Did you hear any reports dur


ing the melee!


Answer-No, sir; did rot.


Cross examination by Mr.. Morey.


Questionable the story which she told


you the second time coincide with what she


told you when she came to yOnr house!


Answer-No, sir; she told me very diff


ok rof n


told me she thought it was Parks or


Poses, Radical niggers; she said this first


in my house. and the next when l


went to the cabin, and the balance


of the conversation occurred after dinner.


Mr. Parks and Mr.. Armstrong were there.


Ouestion-It was then that she told you


that the white men did it!


Answer-Yes, sir asked her II she


knew any of them, and she said she did not


know one of them, and at the conversation
during tho day che said she did.


Ouestiop-What did che tell you, when


she first came up, what had become OF her
child!


Answer-That these men had killed it.


and she had laid it in the cradle and run


away, and just rs socn as they left she came


to me; she said she made out like she was


dead, and they went off.


Question-What was the first story che


told you as to the murder of her husband
in the presence of the white peoplea


Answer-She told me that q few niggers


had come and attempted to take and kill


him.


Question-When did she tirst tell you


that!


Answer-She first told me that when she
came to my house. There was gentleman


in nv house named Hsllory; he was lying


in bed when she came, about twenty feet
off from her.


Question-You stated in your answer


inst now that she told you in the presence
of these white men that they came around.