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BRUTAL STEPFATHERfI.SEVERELY PUNISHED\i tri'c in tin1 courthouse yard, liisthla| Paragoukl, Jan. 25.—Harry Coye,• aged 35, was removed from the! R county jail Wednesday afternoon at ly 5 o’clock by u committee, was led to I tothhands fastened around the tree and ! oi he received to or 50 lashes with a Ai stlip of sole leather made for this it special purpose.? The committee was composed of i t.r r well-known business men who marie ■ pr no attempt to conceal their ideiiti-jth **' ties. It was headed by Frank Van-tis, railroad man. Other members were Griffin Smith, editor of the Daily Press; Tony McDonald, Sr., It.P. Taylor, E. (I. Wideman and Oda't Virgin. Foye was not seriously in-i jured and those in charge of the af-h fair said they wished only to indict painful punishment without endan-t gering the man’s life.Foye was arrested Tuesday morn*4 ing on complaint of liis wife that he nad brutally abused his seven-year*! old stepson. At Foye’s trial before* Justice F. W. Highfill the boy remov-jed li is clothing and exhibited awound three or four inches longthCOeracaofwlimaduannillnocites1mwhich, he* said, had been inflicted bv\er* his stepfather two or three weeksj ago. He said his father became en- I yeraged at a trivial matter which was Mi 1 no fault of the child’s and that Foye oo heated an iron red-hot and applied fa'it to the little boy’s flesh. The boy’s bu ‘ mother, who had given birth to a pe child eight days before, leaped from ha her bed to intercede for her son. The I ed1 boy testified that liis stepfather an tiirew him out of the house into a j ch snowbank at 1 o’clock in the more. I yo ing recently. He testified that hisjeij : stepfather whipped him with a folt; heavy leather strap at least once a ge1 day. .Mrs. Coye told other sickening astories of the brutality of her his band toward herself and her son.I pi The family came here from Toledo wlt;i la., last fall, driving here in a one- he ' hors: wagon. I saW hen the Daily Press appeared hu yesterday afternoon, containing a I tr lull-page story of the charges again t ta Coye, a meeting was called by Mr p, j Vantis. He told the gathering that if ta Coye was permitted to serve1 out ii ■ I to jail sentence and return to liis home.undoubtedly the man would be more ye .rutul toward his wife and . stepson I \\ tlian Tiefore All agreed that, Coye U)de ri ved a beatin I alt;Mr. Vantis secured a pair of liand-L;, ciili and the party went to the jail. V; Sheriff Klmere was alsent and his V( j w ife. who know all the member lt;. y,; the oartv. was fold that they wanted4 • Ito talk to Coye. In; i spcet iugly. .• rl(lt; cave them permission and Coye wasC,. quiekl, taken from the jail D.v tlos j ; time a large crowd had gathered. hu Mr. Vanti: handcuffed Cove to tin m tree while Kditnr Smith told Coye of ro the charges and ordered the flog; ing I (., to proceed. Mr. .McDonald and sam I Pruett took turns in applying the If,, strap When Mr. Smith thought \| Coye* had been shifliciently punished. ,,, he ordered the (logging l eased and Lq( o\i was returned to his cell IP I* Iwas told that if he repeated his Cp brutalitv, a rope would be used in- nst ad of a strap. AThe leaders, including f antis. ( )aSmith. Pruett and McDonald, thenwent before .Justice llig'hfill and in I,,,formed him of what they had done. L..The justice discharged them prompt- |Tlv.d
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Sat, Jan 26, 1918
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