Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — In a Feather Bed. [ARTICLE]

In a Feather Bed.

A Horton (Kan.) special say: Joseph Pels,an Austrian, in, the restaurant business, was taken from his home by 200 men Thursday night, carried a half mile south of town and given seventy-five lashes on his bare back. Pelz had brutally beaten his step-daughter, thirteen years old, to compel her to sign over te him certain property which belonged to her. Pelz was under bond to answer to the authorities for the eflense. Pelz’s wife, fearing that a mok’ would take him before morning, had sewed him up in a feather tick, covered it over with a heavy mattress, and then laid down on the bed and feigned sickness. The couple feueht the mediators like tigers while the old man was being pulled out of his feathery nest. Pelz was warned to leave the town at once.