The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-10
BECAUSE SHE WAS BAD
Vicious Julia Beam Was Tarred
and Feathorcd
BY SOME STRONG BRAVE" MEN,
And an Unsympathc,lc Community
SAYS "Shc Got What She Deserved"
After Being Smcarcd With Tar n
Girl Walks Along Road Until n
Farmers Vito Gives Her n Dress,

Girl Walks Along Ronu Until n
Farmers Vito Gives Her n Dress.
GLEN GARDNER, ITvSrEnDoM County,
Y. j., Nov. 0.-"Tar and feather her;
She is disgrace to tho communityw
Tho cry was raised by the people Of this
village some months ago against Julia
Beam, or MS she was better known, Julia
Walters, a young woman preposscssing
but OF bad reputation. 1t was raised
because ii was said she was corrupting
tho young men OF the village. Their
mothers and fathers shouted It.
She did not heed i. and finally eho
was tarrcd and featllcrod. A few say
was brutaly treated. Tho many say
she deserved what she got. A few say
twas a shocking violation OF the law.
The many reply: "Nevcr mind if it
wag; the town Is rid OF her."
For she went away exhausted By her
struggles with the men who held her
while the tar was being SmcGrcd over
her naked body, she lay after they lett
her half conscious and too weak to
move, in cornlcld until daylight.
Then she wallisd along public high
way in the direction Of her parents
home, six miles north OF here, fantas-
tic shape in black and white until 4
charitable farmers wife gave her n
dress to hide her indignity. She has
not returned to complain againat the
perpetrators, aud she will not. But
Sue has been heard from. AS rcpcn-
tant? Tar and feathers do not inspire
repentance,
DuXoM AND PRETTY.
She was an unfortunate. Bred in
ignorance OF morality's laws. thrown
with tho vicious men and women OF
Fox Hill, six miles north OF this place,
where she was born, she became one OF
many wanton country girls. She is
about twenty years old, OF buSom fig
ure, with 4 rather pretty though OK.
prcssioness face, and OF low order Of
intelligence.
Melville Walters, shiitlcss fellow Of
this place, met her last fall. lie WINS
already married, but his wiic had left
linn for the iierCer gaycties Of larger
New Jersey towns and for the company
Of other men. When Walters brought
Julia Beam here he said he had married
her Tha! cannot have been SO, be-
cause he had not been divorced from
bis othe: wife. Anyway, the couple
went 10 live together in house OH tho
hill back OF the New Jersey Central
railroad station. Walters worked with
more s;eadiness than he had ever done
!or about four months as farm laborer
and chorc docr, and he and Julia lived
in comparative comfort.
Then he grew lazy. lie did little or
10 work, rciapsing into what he had
been before, a typical country loaicr.
The woman with whom he lived lacked
the necessities OF life. She sought the
society OF other men. She soon became
notorious. The SONS OF men III tho vii
lagc and OF farmers in the vicinity ran
alter her. Stories are told here OF wild
orgies il what is known as the "Stone
Fort" an empty building not far from
the station, where Julia received her
Gentlemen friends. There they took
nun in quantities-the fiery rum OF New
Jersey, which causes its victims to yell
and to shout and to fight. Forty men
were there one night, 1t is said, and
Julia was the only woman.
WOMEN PROPOSED TAR AND FEATHERS.
Mothers OF the young men who Wis
tied her heard OF it. They told the
fathers and urged them to drive the
woman away. The proposition OF tar
and leather her were theirs. They in
sisted that it be done. Meantime Julia
and Walters separated, Walters put
her out OF the house. She sank low and
lived rs Il tramp lives, sleeping where
she could and eating where she could,
but always to be found at some time
during the nigh. il the "stone Fort"
b. Tho royGtcrcrs.
Among these were Bill and Ben
Haughart, the son OF John I. Baughart,
. mason, widely known as "Piper"
Daachart, because OF his skill with the
bagpipcs: Clark List, son OF Austin List,
astorckccper; Thomas Throop and sew
cral other boys. John 7. Baughart de-
cidcd that it was time 70 act, two weeks
ego yesterday. The woman was demon.
n!!Z!ng Glen Gardeners young men. She
must So He announced his intention
III tho afternoon. A hall dozen citizens,
among them DR.. Hunt and Miller Cav
ley, offered to furnish the tar ii he
would apply it. lie was ready, lie said.
Austin List, Henry Thatcher, Zen and
Henry Miller and William and John
S!cgiricd joined him and agreed to help
him. They melted tar in n kettle.
Eanghart donated the tar, List the
feathers.
CAUGHT IN a CORK FIELD.
TWAS reported to them while they
were making the preparations, about 0
O'Clock, that Julia had been seen with
girl Of fourteen years, named Grace
i.annie, and Clark List and Ben Daug-
hart entering John Ephraim's corn
field short time before. The field is
o., on tue north side OF the Central tracks.
The fifty or sixty houses in the village
are on the south side.
Baughart and his party started Tor
the field ut onre. They entered it and
walked along cautiously. Presently
they heard voices coming from stack
OF corn stalks in tho center Of tho field.
There they are" said Baughart, and
they al! ran to the spot. Tho quartet
heard them apprOachinp. In thov