Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — Women Punish Wife Beater. [ARTICLE]

Women Punish Wife Beater.

Encampment, Wyo., May 21.—Roscoe J. Beemer, an alleged wife beater living near here, was taken from his home during the night by a posse of women, wives of men working in the mines, given twenty lashes on his bare back, ducked several times in a big barrel of water, tarred and feathered from his waist to his head and then put on a fence rail and ridden out of the community.