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Short this year, 1234Or tr. age ix Greensville County.—A correspondent of the South Side Democrat gives the followidg account of a brutal outrage perpetrated near llicksford on the night of the 1st.hist:A party of men. some four or five in num-| her, with their faces disguised, went to the house of a defenceless white woman of rather loose character : broke open her house, tied her daughter and herself, dragged her out of doors, over a fence to an old field; then stripped her perfectly naked, and then (to their shame be it said), beat her most unmercifully. On the following day, she came to llicksford, made complaint before a magistrate, who forthwith, ordered their arrest.Four men were arrested on suspicion, and brought before their Honors, John \Y. Potts and 0. A. Browne, who after hearing the evidence. bound them over to keep the peace for six months, and also to appear at the next County Court.No names are given by the correspondent, as one of the parties is a man of some stand incr the offence has not vet been nro-
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Petersburg Daily Express
Petersburg, Virginia, US
Thu, Jan 11, 1855
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