The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-05-04
Running the .tauntHet-- Half n Mile
OF W0rse-Nhspp,ng for a FoO5r
Wretch axa peaMsyiyanaa.

The Altoona Tribune SAYS: A drunken
wretch named sEaean, snNew Bloomfield,
Pa, took little hoy, into the woods aud
there slamefuils maltrtated him. He was
arrested, held in jail twenty -four hours,
and then released him, as the father of the
boy did NOT care about Furnishing him by
law. g. ~ /" ~ $500 - g..
Some twenty. FIVE boys, young men. and
some old ones, too, had prepared wagon
whips and cowhides. and stationed them
selves along Carlisle, street. the line
tending to the "turn." When En-
gan was let out OF jail, and viewed
the surroundings, he did not appear to
like the style affairs had assumed, rs a num-
Der Of persons had consregated In tho
Jail alley to witness the sport. He begged
to he permitted to remain in jail the re-
mainder of the, night, but, the keeper of
the prison refused to. accommodate him
with lodging, and told him he would have
to "get upand git" Eagan then started
out of Mcclure street TO Carlisle street,
turning down the Litter, the crowd follow
ing and increasing in numbers and excite.
ment rs they went along. When he reached
the residence OF Jesse Clouser he again
sued for admittance, and to bc allowed the
privilege OF remaining over night, but Mr..
G. also turned deaf car to his entreaties,
and the crowd who had the matter in
charge again got him on the street,
and rs Soon as he reached the pho-
tograph gallery, on Carlisle street, the
Stenc opened and the play began. The
first man stationed along the line bounded
out ut him, firing o pistol in the air near
his head, to frighten him, and at the same
time the whips and owhides were brought
to bear upon him. Then commenced q race
for life. Eagan made good time, starting
away ut the rate OF $40 40" but athletic
BOYS were, equal to the occasion, keeping
close Up to him. and every jump he made
he received from three to half q dozen cuts
rs were cuts, aud as others fell in line that
were stationed along the route, 1t be-,
came double that number. Of cuts to
the Jump. The chase was continued ms
far as Barnetts Hill, one halt mile below
the town, the cowhiding becoming severer.
all the time, while the stentorian voice OF
the guilty wretch was continually utterlng
EXPLANATIONS of cob oh! My God! my
God! Murder! murder J" The boys
would ask him, as they piled their whips
and cowhides with terrible rapidity, "Wili
you ever steal a little boy again?" and the
reply invariably was, ono, no." The con-
slant cracking Of so many wagon whips
sounded like the bursting Of torpedoes, and
had I not known those persons who had
charge of the affair, I. would have been
forced to the conclusion that the inhabi-
tants of the Internal regions had risen
in their might to properly punish a viii
famous scoundrel, When thecrowd near
cd the residence of Mr.. d. ClouSer, the
wife of that gentleman rushed out, terri.
blv frightened, and crying g Murder
murder'' when her husband, who
knew how it was HIMSELF" requested her
to retire indoors, and added at the same
time. "What do you women know about
war;" The boys told him, rs they gave
him the. final iasheS, that if ever they
caught him in Bloomfield again they would
hang him.