Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Woman Horsewhips a Loafer. [ARTICLE]

Woman Horsewhips a Loafer.

Mrs. W. H. Smith, wife of the station agent at Virgil, Kan., has been annoyed recently by her 8-year-old son coming home and ripping out vicious oaths. She learned from him that loafers at the corner grocery were schooling a class of small boysJp. the art of swearing, so she decided to stop it. Accordingly she armed herself with her husband’s razor and a horsewhip and started out last night She found the loafers all buncbed in their favorite haunt teaching some small boys to use oaths. She attacked George Hann, the ringleader, and gave him a severe horsewhipping. He tried to strike her, when pulled out the razor and ran him out of the place. Mrs. Smith was arrested and gave bond for her appearance.