Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Akron Editor Hornewhipped. [ARTICLE]

Akron Editor Hornewhipped.

Samuel Kennedy, editor of an amusement paper, was horsewhipped and beaten Into insensibility on his own front porch at Akron, 0., and left there unconscious. His assailants, Bert G. Work, general superintendent of the B. F. Goodrich company; Stephen H. Kohler, secretary of the Akron Varnish company; and George C. Kohler, an attorney, are all prominent in society circles. They surrendered to the police, admitting their guilt, afid were released on bonds.