Year: 1876

would tell outsiders and the niggers on the
plantation that William Pa.hS was one of the
men; she never told me she knew; she said
she did not know them.


Question-When did You fret see her in
presence of these people that day.
Answer-It was after dinner, as told
Mr.. HallOry was lying in bed in the same
room, and after dinner the doctor came and
waited on her, and We went up to see her.
Lsvi Parks and Mr.. Armstrong went up
too.


Question-What did shs say in regard to
the murder of her husband!


Answer-Thst fifteen or twenty white
men had come to kill her husband, and
tried to kill her and her child.


President Wells-Did l understand the
witness to state that this declaration of
hers, that her husband was killed By white
men and III At they attempted to kill her,
was in the presence Of yourself and Others2


Answer-Yes, cir; in my presence and in
the presence of two other white men.


President Wells-Lf she hal been cut
upon the head would you not have known
ii!


Auswer-I don't know, sir.


Question-Was she cut upon the thighs


Answer-Not that know of.


President Wells-You made no examina-
ton,


Answer-No, sir. I only examined her
throat and head. l did not SEQ the doctor
do any ything except look on her head.


President Wells-Did you have any con-
versation with the doctor in regard to the
nature of her wounds!


Answer-Yes, sir.


Qaestion-What did he say


Answer-The doctor said he thought it
would kill her.


Quastion-Which wound wasit he thought
was the most fatal!


wer-Tbe ono on the head.


President Wells-What did he say in re-
gard to the wound on the neck.


Answer-He said that that was just
through the skin, and would not amount to
much.


President Wells-What about the wound
in the breast.


Answer-He said it was q flesh wound;
he did not think it amounted to great
deal.


Queetion-Was she shot just above the


Answer-No, sir; just above the breast;
she had good big breast, as she had had
q number Of children.


Question-Did the ball lodge in her!


Answer-No, sir, it came out.


Qaestion-What part did it come out
from?


Answer-I did not pay any attention to
it; it went out about under the arm.


President Wells-What want to get at
are the facts connected with the whole
matter.


The witness-You have got every one of
them right from me; don't know anything
more abOutit.


President Wells-That is exactly what
want in having that question pr0pOunded.
1t is not for the purpose of confusing you or
to so fetter your statement, or waive it in
any manner whatever. 1t is simply to get
the truth, and nothing but the truth.


The witness-You have got it as near as
I can tell it.


Mr.. Morey-Is there not another gentle
man living on the Island, ward No. l. whose
name is pronounced the same as yours.
Doyo ors Tiboult?


Answer-Yes, eir; but his name is spelled
differently than mine.


Ouestion-Now, when Eliza came to you
in the morning, did you understand she
came to you for protection!


Answer-Yes, sir; that was her business.
have no doubt it was, though che did not
say go. She said she came to tell me they
had killed her husband and beaten her. and
killed her child. have no doubt but that
abe came for protection, which she got.


Question Do you think she would have
been likely to have given the names OF any
of your neighbors as being among the muir.
derers OF her husband if she believed ita


Auswer.-l don't know i, sir; che is rather
compound of curiosity; !; I don't know what
che would have done; she told the nlggers
that my son was among the mum ber; he
was in Bastrop, and had'been there for two
or three days.


Ouestion-Do you know she told the
negroes thats


Answer-They told me 80. l don't know
whether che ever tCli me so or not. Mig
gers here can lie; but that is what they
told me.


President Welle-I would be glad to state
to the witness to cOnfine himself to his own
knowledge.
as that, You asked me what heard and
that is what have to answer.


Mr.. Morey-Speaking about the child
that was taken from her in Alabama-did
Eliza ask you to assist her in getting that
child!


Answer-No, sir; che never asksd any
BODY; when che came home she said some
body had stolen it; we went through the
plantation to find it; we found it in fence
corner.


Ouestion-She obtained the child'


Answer-Yee, sir; it is at my house now,
and it is nine or ten years old.


Quest ion-Did it come to your knowledge
that til other woman wished to keep the
child,


Answer-No, sir, only what she said to
me about it, and she did not say anything
about it; the other niger said that the
woman wanted Elza's child.


By Judge Dibble-When you went up to
the cabin with these gentlemen and she
told you that there were fifteen or twenty
white men that murdered her husband.
what did you say to herg


Answer-I asked her if she knew any
one of them, and she said she did not in the
presence of these two persons; that is all L


Ouestion-You did not call attention to
the discrepancy between the statement she
made then and the statement made in the
morning!


Answer-No, sir; did not.


Ouestion-When you went up during the
dsy to see the body, in what position was
it lying-the body of the man?


Auswer-Flat on his back.


Question-You say you did not notify the
coroner3


Auswer-No, cir. If he was notified he
did not come. They sent for him to 60 to
him.


Question-Did you not deem it necessary
to 20 for him?


Answer-I am getting sort of old and
mig gers are all free; don't feel like riding
to Monroe and spending night there and
81 or IS to get coroner; there were some
gentlemen going, and told them to tell
him, and buried the niger.


Question-Was there no justice of the
peace in your distric3


Answer-None then; We had one before:
there was one for about two weeks before
the election, and he left.


Question-When you went down to Mon
roe did you see the coroner!


Answer-I was not caring to SEQ him.


Question-Were there any questions
asked about the ocourrencel


Anawar-Ha askad ma very slightly