Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1908 — WHITECAPS ACQUITTED. [ARTICLE]

WHITECAPS ACQUITTED.

Parties Alleged to Have Whipped John Tribby Go Free. Rushville, Ind.. Dec. 9. : —Acquit* tal was the verdict returned tonight in the John B. Tribby whitecapping cases against Mrs. Leona Tribby, Charles and Harry McFatridge. Perry Collins. Rural Kennedy and Lafayette Goldman. The jury was out two hours and five minutes. The crime with which the six were charged was the whipping of Jonh B. Tribby early of the morning of August 5 last, when Tribby was taken from his bed by masked men, bound to a tree, beaten with a spiked board and then covered with tar and feather*. The case went to the jury* - at 3:45 o’clock this afternoon. Five ballots were taken by the jury, the first standing eight to four for acquittal. The second stood nine to three, and the third ten to two. After the third ballot at 5:30 o’clock the jury went to supper at the Windsor Hotel. At 6 o’clock the jury returned to the jury room and resumed the balloting. The fourth ballot also stood ten to two. The jurors then spent twenty minutes discussing the case, and at 6:20 o’clock unanimous verdict was reached on the fifth ballot.