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Show 1EMALE FLOGGERS LASH TEXAS MOTHER I WOMAN BEATEN BY IMS OF iffiiLE EYE Dallas Matron Decoyed From Home and Given 100 Lashes. CONDITION IS SERIOUS Female Whipper Accuses Victim of Having Ruined Ruin-ed Her Daughter I FORT WORTH. Texas.. Sept. 13. Mrs L C Tatum of Stop Six. Dallas. Interurban. who was decoyed from her in. in. lair Tin sday nlt lii and j-is. n 100 lashes with "a cat o' nine tails by ;four women, today v.as in a serious condition. Her body is a muss of bruise-, according to her aunt. Mrs. ; Jan.' Floyd. The whipping was f,'ien by a "committee "com-mittee pi lour" of the. Ladles invisible eye a communication addressed to the n-wspapri's Mated for alleged , "ruining of her daughter." Naomi Ta- (tum. aped 14 Vo threats of any kind , had be. n received bj Mrs Tatum irl-or irl-or to the occurrence Tuesday night. i; WOMAN M SKKI) I One of t h fc? women was masked, Mrs. Tatum said I "Mrs. Tatum has bnd some htti" trouble, but none that would merit J such treatment." Mrs. Floyd said "Several women of her church hav? asked that the daUgnter, Naomi Tatum. Ta-tum. be educated b the church. This Mr- Tatum objected to. She and her husband have hud a little trouble over th- girl, hut It has happened only when ib. mother whipped her daughter. daugh-ter. M N DR1V1 S IUTO Tuesday night about 9 o'clock, a big aui.iin. .l.ib drl. n by a man and occupied oc-cupied by four women drove up In front of the house and two of the women wo-men got out They told Mrs. 'latum thai they would take her to her daughter," Mrs. Tloyd said, i "When she got In the ear and they h;:d dri en a short distance the women wo-men lul l her liny were members of - i Cr-,..,, rnlln5 and ac- CUSOd hi r of ruining her daughtt r and thai as Tarrant county women would not act they would show her Dallas, women will M ss OF BR1 IS1 s "She, was then taken to. a point sev-era sev-era miles away and while the driver of the car held his hand over her mouth, at least three of the women beat her with B long leather Object il, ,i f. lt i though they had Iron balls on the end Her skin Is not broken t.ut her bodv is D mass of bruises and she has been sick since the occurrence. t was summoned by her husband but ho Is not here now and I do not ( know where he is." WOMEN LEAVE NOTf Too first news of the flngginf: l B received at 9:30 P- m. when a trio-, phone call came to a local newspaper! ond police reporters and as!:, d Hi-mj , to come to the bureau office of au-j other paper 1 When reporters arrived al the place a note lav on the desk which read: commute.- of four women of the Ladles of the Invisible Eye adminis-, tered 100 lnshes to a Mrs latum, who llvea al Stop Six ou the Dallas 'pike, on the aigbi ot September 12. , LAtei B young man appeared at the I office and told a tale of alleged nd I treatment by Mrs. Tatum of h r daughter. He gave the repor tei 8 dl red Ions as to how to reach Mr, ' 325 home and departed as nivs.er-oush nivs.er-oush BS be had appeared. I nn |