The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-09
TAR AND FEATHERS.
RecOLLecTiONS OF A COLD NIGHT
IN A COLORADO CAMP.
Publishing . Bruto-Tar, Cold Weather
and Fatal Result Why
Coat OF Tar VIII Cause
Death.
lCor. Sc. Louis Globe. Democrat.

Death.
tCor Sc. Louis Globe. Democrat
Ono of the very few respectable" women
In the Carbonville camp was Mrs. Jake
Cory, who ran a little lunch-room and res.
taurant She wa, sweet faced and sweet
tempered, and had an abiding fund Of pa
tisnco that enabled her TO put up with the
vsgaries Of one Of the worst husbands In the
world. We In the camp thought that Jake
Cory was absolutely the worst on ths face OF
the -arth. He was a drunken, foul mouthed
bIuts Scandinavian, who divided his timo
tetwet', the gambling houses and worse re
soro. at these places he spent every dollar
his wife earned and all he could borrow on
her good name. He once went so far rs ~
pawn hor furniture down TO thu cooking
stove over which she suppo tel him l mon
ton these things to show that the sequel
was not altogether unprovoksd.
Ons evening Cory came into the restaur-
ant drunk and stru"r his wife savagsly In
the face. He escape0 ough the back door
Of the kitchen, and sh.SSanfe In, scared aud
and told the storv to soma Of the
boarders An impromptu indignation meet
Ing was held among tire "bcys,' and il was
decided 70 tar and feather the fellow aud
run him out Of town. This phra'e sounded
well in the mouth Of the man who suggested
1t, and everybody agreed that il was the
correct thing to DO.
No time was lost A couple OF men ran
over to tho refining works and got big iron
bucket OF pitch, and others procured an old
feather tick from a lodging house Then .
started out TO get Cory.
They found him asleep in q saloon. and
hustled him over to vacant lot in tho rear
Of some buildings He was half-dazej and
confused with drink, and thought the affair
was joke, until the men began TO strip on
his clothes. Then he fought like o mad
Inan In truth, bslieve he was mad with
terror His shirt and undsrclobhss had 30
DO literally torn OF Of him, and IL was q
good fifteen minutes work before he stood,
aad stark naked, In tho moon
light
APPLYING THE TAR.
can see him now--hls blsared eyes d.
lated AMI his shock OF yellow hair bristling
on his head. His nude body stood out In
bold relief against the group that sur
rounded him, and the chi1l penetrating air
must have struck the wretch to tho bono.
At any rate he couched down and somebody
Gallo out: "Givs IT. 10 him nowir At the
same instant the bucket OF tar was lifted,
and about gallon thrown with swash
over his bare Shoulders He sprang erect at
the cold touch of the pitch, and whirled
around just In time TO receive the rest Of 10
on the head, face and chest
Fer q moment he stood petrifed, the
black stuff trickling down his body and
leg. and uniting with a great puddle Of it
on the ground. Then ne slowly raised his
hands to his eyes and tried 10 brush them
clear, but as his fingers had received good
shars Of tho pitch he only made matters
worse. and dropped his arms again He did
not ssom to be able 10 realize what had hap
pened, and waggod ht, head blindly from
side ~ side.
As he sSool thus one Of the mon took tho
upper ge Of the tick and inverted It over
him suppose IL was as complete Job Of
the sort a. was ever undertaken; at least
nothing was overlooked 10 make IL a sue
CESS. Cory looked like nothing human, but
some stssussSS 6Vsc,s. .4t moHsssr k!9tSAsi.
about the size and shape OF bushel basket,
ana his features were oblltsrated In tho gen
ersl blacknssa
1T WAS A COLD NIGHT.
When the work was done he was given
fifteen minutes TO got out Ct camp. He was
mado 10 understand with difficulty. but wa,
finally started on tho trail and the crowd
disper.ed.
Early next morning some miners. going
to work, found Cory hack Of building
lying OIL the ground AMI moaning. Tho tar
had by this tiinc rubbed all over him and
N.1 Al sf ov-J
tracted, and every contraction had dra wn
with which che body Is covered.
In places Il had broken the skin,
and the n,en who carried him
into shed found blood on thoir bands. A
physician. then located there, and now nv-
Ing at Greeley, Col, was callsd in and at
teinpted TO remove the stuff with benzina
II was an utter failure, az was everything
else tried, from grease to ammonia
saw him In tho course OF tho morninx.
Tie lower portion Of his body wan covered
with q blanket, but his face was o spectacle
not easily forgotten The hard pitch was
cracked oil over It like alligator skin, and
thai cakei so solidly around ono eye that II
was i'm possible to remove IL The other eye
was opened. but dread fully nhamsd AMI
suppurating. At places over the surface
were soddeR splotches Of fssthsrx
Business called me away from Carbon.
vills for about two weeks, and few days
after returned Cory died. Meantime most
Of the tar had been removed by successive
washes, but his skin was covered with min
ute black specks like tho shaved chin OF q
man who has heavy beard They were the
choked up pores Of the skin, and this was
probably the real cause Of tho death. A
short time after the punishment he had bssn
taken With raging fever. and then symp-
torps Of singular blood disorder set in The
kin over the chest, nsok, cheeks AMI out.
side tho arms ros. In hard ridges, totally de-
void OF feeling. These rapidly 'loughod OF.
leaving open ulcers
shall not enlarge upon these details,
which would only perhaps interest q medical
man. further than 90 say that the sy ptoms
were In all ave ous respect ider<ical with
leprusy. This sole difference was the fright,
fnl rapiiity OF their development Tho die.
tortet rsmains were hurried into a coffin
and hurried into the ground.
TIE CAUSE OF DEATIL
A wise physician Ct Denver told me after
vented the system from throwing OF 10. i'm
impurities. and when the poison that every
instant escapes In preparation IL held bsci
or driven inward the blood u vitisted with
inconceivable swiftnes. He took down
book and showed mo q case quotec
from French government repor
Of 1862, where the College Of Bur
gscns. rs an experiment. covered
boy with gold leaf In six hours no wa
ssiz>d with o fever then . torpOr. and the,
died. The principle. no said, was identical
A man could no more live With his pore
clossi than he cuuld with his mouth ant
nastri!s hermetically sealed. and IL any con
siderable number were stopped up blood dis
orders OF the most dreadful character wer
absolutely certain to ensue.
l had seen enough, however. without th
aid Of scisnc~ or history, TO toll ms thu
covering o man with tar was ops Of th
most horrible punishmsnts that crpslt
has ever devised. l have no impuls
to laugh when ! hear Of Q case of 4
hut rather to walk away with q picsuI
floating bsfore my eyes OF hideously Rrs
tssqus figure shivering In Q cold night q
and a hloatsd corpse In . rough pus coAil
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