Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — FLAYED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

FLAYED ALIVE.

A telegram from Pulaski county, Missouri, says a bold outrage was committed there Saturday night, by an organized band similar to the “White Caps” of Indiana. About midnight a party of masked riders rode up to the house of Charles Gross, a wealtfiy farmer, and dragging him from'the house, carried him a mile away and there whipped him to death. The alleged cause is the divulging of secrets of the Agricultural Wheel, a secret organization. Gross was flayed alive.