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Show NIGHT RAIDERS' ' FLOUITIZENS Masked Men Visit Kentucky Town and Chastise Ten of the Residents Resi-dents With Switches. County Judge Is Warned That His Immunity From Similar Punishment Punish-ment Depended Upon Friendship Friend-ship He Was Expected to Show Tobacco Growers' Grow-ers' Organization. Eddyvllle. Ky. Night riders 300 strong visited Kddyvlllo at 1 o'clock Sunday morning nnd whipped ton men, four of them white nnd six negroes. ne-groes. Tho white men, who nro suffering suf-fering from soro backs as tho result of a severe chastisement with switches, nro: Pollco Judgo C. W. Huckcr, Lcsel Woods, former city mnrshal; Press Frnllck, who occasionally occasion-ally acted as deputy city marshal, and Grnco Robertson, a saloon porter. Tho connection between tho whipping whip-ping of tho whlto men nnd tho negroes ne-groes and tho tobacco war in westorn Kentucky Is not apparent and no ono has been ablo to offer any explanation. Nono of tho victims was known to bo either activo or 'influential In, opposition opposi-tion to tho farmers' pooling movement. move-ment. No attempt was mado at destroying de-stroying stored tobacco. After tho whipping had been administered admin-istered tho mob awakened County Judgo W. L. Crumbaugh and warned him that his Immunity from similar punishment hereafter dopended entirely en-tirely upon tho friendship ho wnB expected ex-pected to show tho tobacco growers' organization. Ho was told that hlB gray hairs alone wero rcsponBlblo for his being spared this time. Tho only tobneco man visited was J. M. Brad-shaw, Brad-shaw, who Is a tobacco prlzor for one of tho growers' associations. Mr. Urndshaw was ordered to closo up a billiard hall which ho owns. |