Show WHITECAPS IN ANCIENT VILLAGE OF PLYMOUTH Seven even Prominent Young Men ea on Trial for or Administering Administering Administering Admin Admin- Tar an and Feathers PLYMOUTH Mass 1355 Nov Not 21 The The celebrated tar and feather trial Is on here E cr Every man and woman In Marlon 1 have talked o of nothing since Au August tho the date of oC the Incident They all nil know kno Just who did It as the Indictments fin say riotous riotously assemble to disturb the peace and did maliciously malicious beat wound and otherwise maltreat James McDonald This Is the on only case of or on the record In Massachusetts since the landing of or the Pilgrims In 1620 Added Interest Is given to the case by persistent persistent per per- assertions D that Richard Har Harding Davis C. C D. D Gibson the artist Ethel Barrymore the actress and other residents who have made Marlon MarJon famous in late years ears have contributed to a defense fund Cund for the seven young oung men Indicted as the leaders lenders of oC the mob Mr Ir Davis strEnuous strenuously denies that he had anything to do with the thc tarring and feathering of oC McDonald He tle denies les that he has given Fiven any mane money to aid the defendants James McDonald a man no longer young youn w went tent nt to to Marion Marlon to live and took up UI his residence with Charles Potter and his wife who live lI out of oC the village The story was about abou t town that Potter had been driven en away from home b by McDonald and Mrs Potter Patter A mob moh gathered on the night of ot August McDonald was dragged roughly to a lonely spot stripped and his skin smeared with bicycle cement Then he was rolled In feathers Finally the whitecaps set him a fence rail and carried him to the thc town boundary They told him he would be he killed If IC he came back hack No on one thou thought ht he would return but hut he rid lId after swearing to a complaint complaint complaint com com- plaint in the thc DIR District some omo of or tho the most mORt prominent men In the vil vil- lage Mrs Potter Is said to have ha been also chastised |