| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from
microfilm of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 8/7/1894.
Shame
Word again reaches us that a band of masked men gathered at the
house
of one "Sis" King, near Minnora, a few nights ago and took her from
her
bed in her night clothes and each proceeded to administer two well
laid
on lashes. It is told that the screams of the tortured woman
made
the night hideous for some distance. It is also told that there
were
forty men in the gang. With our personal knowledge of the
citizens
of Washington district we are astonished to think such an act could be
perpetrated, but that it was, and that there were forty men
accessories
to the crime utterly astonishes us. For what was this woman
whipped?
One says for adultery. Admitting her to be an adulterous woman
such
offenses are punishable by fine or imprisonment in the county jail or
both.
While the offense of whipping a person as above indicated is a felony
and
is punishable by confinement in the penitentiary.
We were warned by a friend some time ago when we said something
about
a like matter if we didn't "quit it" we would lose some subscribers in
that community. Be this as it may, we can't in justice to the
fair
name of the county, in justice to the good citizens of that
neighborhood
(and we repeat "there are many such"), in justice to the general
welfare,
peace and prosperity of all the people, in justice to humanity let
this
matter go without entering our solemn protest and disapproval of such
conduct.
As to losing subscribers for entertaining the opinion we do about such
matters we can not now believe that any Chronicle subscriber would be
guilty
of such conduct. |
