The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-24
HANDS UP.
Miners Given Glimpse Of the Work
of White Caps.
A Bleeding form Presented as the
Last Act of the Tragedy.
Secret Committees Hunting the
Hesrtless Wrstchss Down.
Other Warnings Give and People go
About Heavily Armed.

SHAMoKIN, Pa, Jan. I9.-White
Caps in the eastern and western por-
tions of Northumberland county
worked with possibly fatal results
Thursday night since which time
vigilance committees have been formed
all over the county instituting
search for the heartless wretches.
1t is as hard a task to find who the
members of the committees are. as to
establish the indemnity of the White
Caps. Patrick Doolan and two Hun
garian laborers left the mines of the
Carbin golfers at 8 O'Clock yesterday
morning to go home. They lived in
Springfield, two miles from the mines.
AS they were three hundred yards
from their homes, walking on the
turnpike, Doolan suddenly stopped.
calling the attention of his compan-
| ions to number of strange looking
objects hundred yards to the left on
both sides of deep and swift running
stream. He told the men to accom-
pany him to find out what it all meant.
| after the men had walked about fifty
yards toward the creek the moon
drifted out from behind a bank of
clouds and revealed to the eyes of the
miners about three dozen men in
/ WHO IODSo, lIC ldCCo
concealed with black masks, while
tall, white, conical shaped hats sur
mounted their heads. 1t was
la weird and CHASTITY spec
tacle. The masked men all
carried Winchester rifles and
a number flOurished knives in the air,
Before DoOlan and his companions
could draw back seven of the ghost
like figures ran down behind the min
ers and told them to throw up theiI
hands. after which they were marched
to the waters edge and surrounded by
heavy guard. Then one of the band
addressed the miners III gruff voice
informing them that they would be
hold the last of White Cap tragedy
Turning on his heel, the man, evident
ly the leader, emitted a shrill whistle
which caused a clump of bushes Il
part twenty yards off in the woods
Out of the opening emerged foul
White Caps, carrying naked man
whose person resembled a quarter o.
| raw beef; this appearance was caused
, so the leader told the astonished ant
, affrighted miners, by having twenty
J laSheS of a cat-o'-nine-tails laid on him
When the procession reached the spo
where Doulan and the White Cap
stood, the bleeding man. who was un
conscious, was held up in front of thu
workmen and DoOlan recognized hiu
as Thomas Hogue of Cool Run, reputeC
, to be harmless idiot. Doolan mus
tered up courage enough to ask VIII.
the unfortunate wretch was so treated
when a White Cap remarked tina
: HOgue had tried TO- assault ;
J girl on her way to ShamOkin
, early in the evening, and that on
> of the band saw him and rescued tin
girl. He told the girl to go home, afte
which he knocked HOgue down, tieC
his limbs, carried him into the wood
and bound him to a tree. He then re
? ported the case to the rest of tn
? brethren and they were now wreakin
: vengeance on the wrOng-dOer. A rop
was now thrown around HOgue and h
; was cast into the ice-cold stream an
. dragged up and down in the water fo
a short time, when he was laid on til
bank. A White Cap then Ordere
: DoOlan and his men to kneel and renal
in that position until they were out Q
sight. The men did so and the band dis
appeared in the woods. The men carrie
= HOgue to hostelry in springfield, wher
! he now lies at the point c
. death. The alarm was a
: once given and gangs of angry miner
{ secured the woods for miles around
but no trace of the brutes could b
found. Yesterday mornings mail CAV
a number OF warnings to different pee
: pie to leave Shomokin in twenty-fou
hours or receive punishment from til
? White Caps. 1t is feared that there wi
l be bloodshed, as everybody is heavil
g armed. at the time that HOgue wa
] receiving his brutal treatment simila
8 scene was being enacted in the fores
near Milton. thirty-fve miles away
r where two white men and "A negro WEI
? taken from their cabin by body c
: masked men who tied the captives t
r trees and dashed them numerically
: No clue TO the perpetrators has bee
: developed.