Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — TWO WOMEN CRUELLY WHIPPED [ARTICLE]

TWO WOMEN CRUELLY WHIPPED

Ohio “Regulators” Laslt Them witb. Switches Till They Become Unconscious. [Winchester (Ohio) special.! About six months ago a band of “regulators” was organized in this (Adams) county to drive out disreputable people and break up the houses of ill-fame. Their first effort was on a number of lewd women, whom they whipped and tarred and feathered. The “knights,” to the number of twenty or more, all masked and armed with shotguns and hickory switches, last night went to the honse of a woman named Martin, who, with her daughter Lilly, has the reputation of being loose. The knights had served the two with a notice to quit the county several days ago, but the women, disregarded it When the mob rode np to the house they were refused admittance. They promptly battered down the door. Two men were inside, who made somo show of resistance, and several shots were exchanged without injury beforethe “knights” overpowered the inmates. The two women were then dragged from bed, stripped, and tied to tho door-frame, and whipped with hickory switches until they were unconscious and their bodies a shocking mass of bruised and bleedingflesh. The two men, who were married farmers living in the vicinity, were dismissed with the admonition that if agaim found in a house of ill-repute they, too, would be killed. The knights then rode< off.