Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — Tar and Feathers Follow Assault. [ARTICLE]

Tar and Feathers Follow Assault.

Valentine Miller after being tarred and feathered in West Chicago, 111., was saved from being lynched only by the strenuous resistance of the older men in the angry crowd which surrounded him. Instead of hanging there was substituted riding him out of town on a rail. The younger men in the crowd, aroused by the unusual experience of tarring and feathering, and excited by the cries of the hundreds of angry women, were anxious for more conclusive vengeance, and for a time fought fiercely to get a rope around Miller’s neck. The people of West Chicago were aroused by the appearance of Mrs. Miller running down the main street, crying Joudly, and with blood running from numerous cuts on her head and face. The beating she had received she declared was the last one of a long series for which her husband was responsible. She said she had been knocked down and struck repeatedly across the face and breast.