Show HORS L WHIP THEIR MAN HAD MADE ATTACKS ON THEIR reputation scenes i of horsewhipping was the home of I lis his latest sweetheart icart A special to the salt lake tribune from milford utah says in retaliation tion for alleged attacks on their reputations seven young domn of this place ed administered ministered a severe whipping to john mckean saturday y ni night 1 mckean who is agent for the continental oil company was calling upon his sweetheart at the time of the chastisement but regardless of her screams and the of her mother i quirt and rawhide were vigorously used until mckean cried for mercy the feeling which culminated in in this affair has been growing for some somo time mckean has been very prominent in local society and has paid attentions to nearly ap all the young ladies of milford it is charged that after transferring his affections he would make remarks reflecting reflect I 1 i n upon his former companions naturally naturally these remarks came to the ears of those interested te and it was decided that the alleged traducer should be punished saturday night ada jennings lottie barton jo sherwood mollie forgie marie hutchins ella hutchins and rose lones jones held hold an informal meeting each was provided with quirt rawhide or similar implement A scout reported that bat mckean was calling on miss pratt the daughter 0 of the san pedro edro station agent the party walked quietly through the darkess to the pratt residence and blind pd the object of their search etting ng on the porch ne of the attacking party called to him aim to come out as they wanted to a see ile him he mckean replied that oe was as engaged thereupon the seven girls surrounded him dragged jhb ora his C chair hair threw throw him down on 1 porch and began to thresh him th thal 88 pratt stood by screaming at lae e top of her voice hor her mother drawn ra wn by the sound attempted to rescue the young man but was unceremoniously pushed aside we all had bad grievances against mckean said one of the young women of the horsewhipping party he had bad been scandalizing all of us and we decided to give him a lesson why one young lady felt so bad over the way that he be talked about her that she moved away from town mckean left town after the affair and his side of the story could not be secured |