Show MAN 21 IN JAil FOR PROTECTION Says s Same Gang Has Flogged Him Twice in ill in Woods BIRMINGHAM Ala Oct 7 By ByThe For The Associated Press For For the sec HC- second ond end time within a week Robert Collins Col Col- Collins lins 21 a mechanic was alleged to t have been and taken Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday day da to a wooded section near here and flogged The whipping was said by of officers of- of offIcers to have been administered last Sunday night Both whippings oc occurred oc- oc occurred occurred at the same place Sheriff Hartsfield said Collins told officers that the same unmasked men were were guilty ef of both floggings Sheriff Sherif Hartsfield said be he believed Collins was a victim of a bootleggers bootlegger's gang Collins told oW- oW officers cers cars he could assign no reason for the floggings Tuesday morning Collins told wid the police pollee he received a telephone call warning him to w leave Ilave town immediate Immediate- immediately ly or that the first flogging would be repeated He lie disregarded the th warn warn- warning warnIng warning ing he said and last night while on his way to his mothers mother's home here he was forced into an automobile taken to the outskirts of the city and the beating repeated Collins Is In the county jail at his own request for protection the sheriff said I |