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Show MOB III SANPETE 11 SPANKS A WOMAN II Not Satisfied With This. Thej v ifl Throw Red Pepper Upon IH Person of Victim. :' f H SIX WOMEN AND TWO If I MEN ENGAGE IN OUTRAGE P!tH All Are Arrested and All Enter iv Pleas of Guilty but One, I'ti'tlH and Are Fined. j! jijJ Special to The Tribune. m( i MT. PLEASANT, Utah, Sept. 11.1, !!''!' 1 Alleging that they had been slandered., t:' and declaring that the officials did T.tl jH nothing to stop her from tulking, six ' women nnd Iwo.men visited the home o jij, f .Mrs. John Stohl near here a week ago '' 'l ' Wednesday and, finding the woman ,j' TH alone, entered the house and proceeded to give her a terrific spanking, a board !' being used for the purpose, and was 1 11 1 wielded by Mrs. Rose White, a woman '! aged (30 years. li After Mrs. Stohl had been thoroughly j'n h iH spanked, then Clnra White, according ' to her own statement, administered :! (i red pepper to the iii.iurod woman, throw- Ih ing it upon her person and in her 1 ' k eyes. ! Later on the officers arrcstod tho V entire party ttud they were brought be-lore be-lore Justice A. li. Waldomar. Tho 1 Pyramid here, in its issue of Fridav, prints the following account of the out- rage upon Mrs. Stohl. Savs the Pyra- r ! mid: , Enter Pleas of Guilty. ' . Six women and two men, Itose White, ' Rose Ellen P.oaenlol', Clara White. Gay '' White, Mrs. Malinda Nlclson, Esther An- ' IH dorson, Roy White and Erastus Nlelson. were before Justice A. B. Waldemar iast evening, charged with batten', as the result of the whltecapphifr attack on Mrs. John Stohl last week. All entered pleas ' of guilty to the charge, excepting Esther I' Anderson, who pleaded .not juilty. As the officers were convinced that she had nothing to do with the attack on Mrs. Stohl, she was dismissed. IH In offering an explanation of why they j, . had attacked the woman, Mrs. P.ose i White, a. woman of C2 years, told a tale which fairly sizzled, so lurid was It. The. 9 Stohl woman, she said, had told such , horrible stories about herself nnd fani- IH lly, and had sold such unutterable things pH about them, screaming out her accusa- 0H tlons while In the middle of the street. !' that she could .stand It no longer. The i officials could do nothing, so she did It 1 herself. She took all the blame of the l; spanking administered to the offending , !H woman, saying she had done It with a flH small board, home of the stories told by IH her In court as coming from the Stolil JH woman wore sensational and Indecent in il the extreme, and wore couched In lan- ! gunge that fairly bristled with profan- iH Administers Rod Popper. ,M Clara Whlto offered an explanation of why she had joined the expedition iH against the Stohl woman which was much the same as that given by her mother-in-law. Some of the stories which she claimed had been told about her wore real bad ones: they would not look well In print. She had administered 1 pH tho rod pepper. pH Most of the women were dressed in men's clothing. Tho two men said they 1 H had romnlncd outside, not particularly to keep others away, although they had gone towards ono passerby and fright-oned fright-oned him badly. Not a word was said I during the spanking, which had. been ! thoroughly done. It is understood these 1 1 . explanations do not tit In with what was ! 1 told tho officials by others of the de- , fondants. j Each Member of Mob Fined. ' ' After taking the matter under ad- t visement the .justice assessed a fino of t $'2o eaeh against the seven, who pleaded j guilt v. which, it is understood, the. parties have paid. The end is not yet, however, and damage suits may be filed. The community is much wrought 1 up over the affair. |