| Show LAWLESS IN iff INDIANA THE white caps of indiana appear to be beyond the reach of the law and to be permitted to continue a reign ol of terror unchecked by the lawful authorities it is time that something more than denunciation was brought to lo bear upon an organization that rivals the famous or infamous ku ka klux klau elan it is only a few days ago that a special dispatch to coast papers contained an account of the breaking brea kinz up meetings held by the josephites Josephl tes in that state by armed white caps who ordered the preachers to leave the country the same dispatch mentioned a ter terrible case of whipping of two men and a woman said to be mormons cormons Mor mons who were stripped to the waist and lashed till they tainted and one of the men had bad an eye cut out in the ibe castration castigation another woman who was seized by the scoundrels was spared the whipping done with hickory switches but was directed to revive the fainting inting ta victims with a handkerchief dipped in water from a creek the names of the men were given as manley and corbin from utah but no such names appear ap pp ear on the regular missionary list here on the of july a company ot of twenty five white caps took a woman and her bier daughter nineteen years earo 0 old a at slid and charging thera with being unchaste tied them to trees and whipped them with hickory switches till abe he blood flowed flo wed their shrieks were disregarded re and they were ware scourged urged till they fainted they were then cut loose look and the ahe white capo rode to the house of a reputable citizen and or dered him to spread tho the news this ai it appears is their custom after an aa out oat ra rage e of this character reir their conversation as to going boing to the gent lemans house was overheard ov three men who armed themselves and ana hurried on to the spot where they con cealey themselves in a thicket the gentleman mr leslie moreland received them rifle in hand band and when ordered to do their bidding refused and was threatened with hanging banging he responded with his ride and at the same time the three men in ia ambush opened fire the white caps returned the volley but rode off frightened supporting two of their number and leaving A a bloodstained blood stained hat li la the road it is thought the elder of the two whipped women will die such lawlessness no matter under what pretext ought not to be permitted in a civilized country if 11 people break the law by immorality or otherwise the law to be sufficient to punish them the josephites Josephl tes are entitled to the protection of the law as much as the presbyterians rians or aed it to is a disgrace to indiana if their peaceable pea crable gatherings to worship god are arc allowed to be broken up the governor and other executive officers of that state are in duty bound to see sec that tais CAs lawless organization is destroyed and that the lives and rights of the citizens of indiana are pro proper vigilance canoot fall fail to discover the perpetrators perpetrator ia ol 01 these acts of violence andun and unless leas something vigorous and earnest is ia done to trace them out and punish abir authors there will he a strong that some of the county officials where the white C caps laps chiefly perform their deviltries devil tries are not wholly unconnected with the lawless organization |
