Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-12

"A
3 Man and Woman Tarred and Feathercd-
Two of the Offenders TO he Executed.
In relating the issue Of Q case recently de-
cided in the Assize Court, in, Canada, the
Woodstock 20. W. Times, of April 2s,
says: -
1t appears that a farmer by the name of
Brown, reoiding in the township of Dereham,
has wife, who happens--like most of her
sex-to have "a tongue in her head" Mrs.
Brown and her neighbors, once on terms of
intimacy, lately have had their differences.
These differences, in the course Of events,
assumed seriousness that seldom belongs to
, country scandal. -., -.t.t ...,..,i .
Mrs. Browns neighbors, being for the most
part members Of a denomination called the
Bible Christians" took the occasion of the
dedication of their denominational edihce rs
the fitting time for planning her humiliation
and disgrace, which, in their Christian for
bearance, was TO be nothing beyond q tarring
and feathering. The kind offices of these
devout people were also to be extended to
the male Brown. The scheme, so well
planned, and in which SO many Joined, old
as well as young, male as we'll as female,
was not put in practice until the winter sea-
son, as the general inclemency of the weather
about that time gave certainly that the opera
tion would not only be disgraceful but pain
tul. Consequently, on the LIST, of December
last, the party being formed and the neigh
borhood on tip-toe of excitement the attack
was made. IL does not appear who led this
gallant phalanx of pious scoundrels. They,
however, presented themselves little after
eight o'clock, at the door Of the domcile of
the Browns, and demanded admission.
Mrs. Brown, in her fright, on the entrance
of her cowardly assailants, fed to the garret.
l,nx L. r. a
inside the bedroom door, when the gallant
Captain of this Christian force gained the
center of the floor, and spoke the terms of
treaty, which were these: The Browns were
to surrender themselves, trusting for their
lives to the clemency Of their captors; where
upon @ party was deployed to seize Mrs.
Brown while Mr.. Brown, in an almost nude
state, was marched off in charge of three
men. Quick followed the other party with
Mrs. Brown in charge, her imploring accents
mingling with the martial tread of her gall
liant escort. After traversihg to within ON
inous proxomity of a rushing stream, the
party halted. There, in the biting wind,
began the duty Of the night, which was to be
rewarded by a sumptuous feast at the hospit-
able board of the benevolent and exemplary
Smith, the leader of their church.
Tar was applied literally to the head, the
body, and the legs Of Mr. Brown. Like favors
were bestowed upon Mrs. Brown, under the
direction of man named Smell. This was
not enough. These "Bible Christians" were
not yet satisfied. Though there was but one
unmarried man among them, the worst was
to follow. Brown was held captive on the
crispt cold ground, while Mrs. Brown. was
marched to the house from which she was
dragged, and then made to suffer the greatest
disgrace that can befall a woman; her re-
sistance rendered of no effect by the efforts OF
that most excellent young man"-as de-
scribed by one of the witnesses for the de-
fence--Mr. Franklin Meyer; her supplications
and beseechings .stifed by the hand of the
monster Meyer himself but six months q
husband. Shell, and another who has flown
the country, were the perpetrators of the
cruelty and the crime; Meyer, the excellent"
coolly twisting his moustache and in 'Bible
Christian" indifference spectator of this dis
gusting-this diabolical inhumanity. This
was the offense for which these human mon
sters were put upon trial. 7'"
Franklin Meyer and Jacob Smell wore SEN
fenced to be executed on the sth of June.