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Says a correspondent: The Ku-KJux outrage upon the person of Samuel Ewing, who livea near Hrteville, is creating good deal pi ex* citement. Tuesday night a party of fifteen masked men went to his house about 9 o’clock, and against his protests knocked him down with a revolver, tied his hands and took him out into the woods in his night clothes, and putting a rope around his neck, ordering him to confess to the poisoning of some horses be* longing to a Dr. Biddinger, of the same neighborhood. He denied any complicity therein, and was hauled up for a few moments. Then he was let down and reiterated his innocence, but to no effect, as the fiends hoisted him again. This was repeated a third time, when the villians left him for dead. He#crawled home nearly dead, being shockingly beaten and choked, as well as frozen. The next morning the frozen imprints of his feet could plainly be traced in the earth. The relatives of Mr. Ewing will spare no efforts to punish the gang, and have had the Grand Jury of Bartholomew County convened. Besides, the United StatesDistrict Court will be asked to take cognizanceof this high handed outrage, under the provisions of the Ku-Klux-Klan Law, enacted especially for the Southern States, where such things are said to be common. Four of thewn, being identified by Mr.
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Greensburg Standard
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 04, 1881
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