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Show YOUNG WOMAN MAY OIE FROM TERRIFIC LASHING Is Brutally Beaten by Prominent Men Became She Refuted to Give Up Man She Loved. Macon. (Ja. Kssle Carter. the young white girl who was whipped at Imwhiui, (!a, Sunday night, by a party of prominent men headed by V. H. Dozier, clerk of the superior court. Is at the point of death In a hospital here. The probability is that the inrii U'ho whlpied her eventually will be tried for murder, as the attending physicians are almost without hope. The girl has a high fever and there are symptoms of blood poisoning. Mian Carter's body Is so swollen that she U In constant agony. There Is scarcely an Inch of flesh from her neck down that is not rut and discolored, dis-colored, and she cannot bear the touch of either clothing or bandages, Kssle Carter was whipped tiecauae W. S. Drzler's 2." year-old son w as Infatuated In-fatuated with her and she refused to swear that she would never meet the young man again. "I love Vogt Do.ier." she mid Tuesday Tues-day afternoon, "and he loved me. He-cause He-cause ho would not give me up, though I urged him to do so, to pleas, his father, the latter and his friends whipped me Almost to death. Dozier and his friends carried me off In an automobile Sunday night to a grove near Dawson. When they got me there they stripped me to the skin, and while four men held me, lh..ler lashed me with a buggy whip. A negro chauffeur held the lantern o that ho could gee to whip me." W. S. Dozier, In a statement Issued Tuesday, admits whipping the girl, but says he did it to save his son. Young Dozier Ih so enraged over the whipping of Miss Carter that he has threatened to shoot his father and others who took part in the affair. |
