Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-07-18
Coroners Inquest Over the Lynched Han
Martin Mera, in Illinois.

CHICAGO, ILL.,. July Sat the coroner's in
quest over the body Of Martin Mera, who was
lynched at Watsaka, H., for killing his son,
ten years DID, Mary Mera, the mother of the
child testified as follows.
''My husband, Martin Mera, whipped my
Tuesday night; my babe was born that day
and did not see the whipping it was done
in another room heard the blows and heard
the child beg for mercy; the child went to bed
about ten clock the next morning the child
came to my bed, followed by his father, who
was whipping him with black-snake horse
whip the child lodged around the room to
avoid the blows and begged for mercy he was
completely naked, his father having compelled
him to strip himself; his face was swollen from
the whipping he had received the night before /;
his father whipped him very hard for ten OF
fifteen minutes, and at last he stopped and told
the child to put on his shirt he made an eff
fort to do SO and failed; his father repeated
can { see > you cans see it, raspopded his IA
ther no, father, [ can't see-,you, | cant see
you, feel dying the father then rubbed the
boy with spirits, and forced some down his
throat the child raised his hands, moved his
lips, and then expired.
Mera then took the body and put it under
the bed where the mother was lying, and it re-
manned there until this evening, when he buried
it. The testimony of the boys sister is still
more horrible.
Sarah Mera the daughter of the murderer,
aged fourteen years, testified that her, father
often whipped her brother very severely with
horse whip. Tuesday two weeks ago be
brought my brother in and said he had not
worked, and whipped and knocked him down
twice Father continued to whip him, and
said he would whip him until he could not
stand up He would whip the life out of him.
Two or three times he said this, and brother
would plead With him, Father, don't whip me
any more Oh don't whip me any more !
Brother went to bed about ten o'clock. lie
said he did not know why father whipped him
so. He never told stories only when father
made him. Father would say if he dldn own
up he had done so and SO he would whip him.
and to avoid it brother would own to things he
never did. Wednesday I got up and got break
fast ready. Father rose when breakfast was
ready, and brother got up. but felt so badly
that he went back to bed. Father made him
get up and go out and feed stock, and when he
came back whipped him and sent him to the
field Me went for him and brought him, and
made him take off his clothes and then whip
ped him. and picked him up and laid him on
the stove, which was hot enough to heat irons.
[ was baking biscuits. Father put him in the
stove twice, brother pleading all the while, 'Fa-
ther, don't burn me-. He screamed very loud,
came off his back and feet. It.smelled SO bad
that opened the door and father Immediately
shut it, while brother was pleading. Father
said he would burn him till he worked. [ have
seen father strike mother with his fist many
times. He knocked brother down several times
with the butt end of the horse-whip never
saw my brother after he went into mother
! room
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