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or stores, etc White Cap outrages prevail in Crawford County. Sovoral nights ago Mrs. John Cosby, Samuel Stroud, Mrs. Leo and her son were terribly whipped, Mrs. Cosby fainting under the torture. Miss Dollie Neal would also have boon assaulted but she succeeded in escaping from Mrs, Leo’s house. Notice has since bcou given Miss Noal, North Goodson and his boys, and John Miller that if they do not mend their ways they v.dll be “switched within an inch of their lives,’Another outrage is reported by the White Caps in Crawford county. It seems that Mrs. Crosby, tho Widow Loo, her seven-teen-yoar-old son, and Samuel Stroud, had fallen under the ban of tho midnight marauders, and Monday night Stroud was talrou out and given fifty lashes with stout hickory with os; Mis. Crosby received forty blows, she fainting twico while tho punishment was being administered. 'l'ho Widow Lee and her sou wore given but ten each. All the' parties live noar Magnolia.K lt;k «*«... £ t— .r. 4 C »-v •mmm % ■ A \ % •**« •% T r m «
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Bloomington, Indiana, US

Sat, Nov 16, 1889

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