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[JPew York Herald !Daring tbe counting ot the Presidential vote of Louisiana in New )rleaus, before t ti e Returniug Soard and the visiting statesmen, n November, 1876, the country vas startled and shocked by the utioduction, as the victim of and witness to savage Democratic bull* lozing.of a colored woman named Eliza Pinkston. She had been severely wounded, was apparently Jjing; was brought in to give testimony on a sofa or settee, and ! ciHiwtl:PCstb«Bm81fthislt;ai?ave a remarkably succinct and Iramatie statement to the effectbiit[hat her husband, Henry Pink- h ston, had been dragged out ot his j y jabin by a gang of Democrats and ! gj murdered before her own eyes be- li sause he was a prominent Repub-alicau, and that the same gang then : rlt; brutally beat, cut and shot her. p She seemed still greatly debili- a tated when testifying, and her e■■story and her appearance produc- | tl ed a profound impression in New Orleans aud throughout the country, Her appeauce was a complete surprise to the Democrats of the State and of the couuty (Ouachita) in which she lived and where the brutal outrage was said to have been committed. They ] arLeIlt;]£appear to have at first accepted j c her tale, but as soon as they could f reach the county and look into the f story its truth was positively de- t nied, and later it was stated that c Eliza Pinkston, havius with her! i husband, been tbe victim of a t r quarrel with 800)6 of IlGf colored j c neighbors, had been picked op by j t Republicans* brought to 2?ew Or*; c leans, tntored carefully in the part * she was to play and the evidencej c she should give, and was then t suddenly aud in the dramatic 1 manner wlrch will be remembered j t
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Logan Hocking Sentinel
Logan, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 11, 1878
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