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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: [INMONROE] WHITECAPPING: McFarland--George Hatton
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 07:54:38 -0500


Bloomington (IN) Weekly Courier, Nov 21, 1911, p. 1. NOTE: This odd
article seems like it should have been two stories with parts of each missing.

TAR AND FEATHERS PREPARED FOR SANDERS COUPLE
Sheriff Browning Discovers Excitement Over Man and Woman

There was almost another whitecap case Saturday at Sanders when a married
man of that place was caught in company with a married woman at the
outskirts of the little town. Sheriff Browning was summoned to come to
Sanders as quickly as possible and when he arrived at 5:30 a large number
of men and boys had just finished the job of running the man and woman out
of the town. They were preparing to tar and feather them when the pair got
away.

On cross examination Mrs. Langley was asked if she had talkd about the
whitecap case to anyone, and she replied no. When Atty. Henley questioned
her, "Did you not talk about your testimony here to the defense attorneys?"
she replied: "I am not going to answer any more of your questions,"
whereupon she was excused.

W. A. Fulwider, of the Fulwider saw mill, followed Mrs. Langley and brought
with him the log book of the mill showing that he received four logs from
George Hatton on May 4, the moring of the whipping. He said Hatton had
been paid cash for the logs.

Sheriff Browning was called and said he went to the scene of the
whitecapping on the morning it occurred starting from here in the Allen
Buskirk automobile at 10:30. He overtook George Hatton and the Grubb boy
returning to their homes with the loads of millet hay, but did not speak to
them.



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