Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — HOOSIER TARRED AND FEATHERED [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER TARRED AND FEATHERED

BY LOUISIANA CITIZENS, FOLLOWING CHARGES OF DISLOYALTY. i i ■ * - Vicksburg, Miss, April 16.—Covered with tar and feathers and wearing a placard bearing the words “disloyal to the United States,” William A. Hunter, 68 years old, owner of a large plantation in- Tenas Parish, La., arrived here today on a train from Newellton, La. He said citizens of Tenas Parish had applied the tar and feathers after aceusing him of refusing to buy Liberty bonds. He told the United States marshal here that he purchased $5,000 worth of bonds of the second Liberty Loan while at his old home in Williamsport, Ind. Attica, Ind., April 16.—William A. Hunter, who is reported to have been tarred and feathered in Louisiana where he owns a plantation, also owns considerable land near West Lebanon, Ind. He spends his time both in Indiana and Louisiana. Hunter is a driector in a bank at West Lebanon. He is a son of Parks Hunter, who formerly owned two hotels at the mineral springs near here.