The sun., 1893-10-11
SAL llUGGINS'S PUNTSHM ENT.
SHIPPED AND DUCKED BY MRS MIN-
MES hTENaERS

n. Former Queen OF the Cranberry BoE..
srsooOO In Riotous Living, Helped
p,,eh Bill Minnie Spend what He won.
There Is 4 deep hole In the creek which flows
through tho Pine Ridge Cranberry bog near
dookstown, n j.. and on one side OF II the
hank has been trampled and torn up. From
shs bushes near by bits OF cloth torn from
romen's dresses nutter. and on the further
aide OF the stream. line OF footprints. deeply
sunken In tho oozy mud. leads into tho thick
.st Of the woods. These marks OF struggle
mean that on last Saturday night. q crowd OF
enraced women from the cranberry bog gave
20 Sal Huggens. tho handsomest. and. II her
psiahbors may bo believed. the wickedest
WON an in the bog lands, the first punishment
shs has received since her childhood.
FOR fourteen years. since Us handsome
blue. eyed Girl OF IA. Sal went on the bogs."
she has been the terror OF the law abiding and
abe pride OF the lawless element OF the cram
berry region. For q young girl to identify
herself with the reckless and often vicious
crowds that go from bog to bog picking the
crsnberries and spending their wages In drunk
epness and debauchery means but ono thing.
and Sal Foster-that was then her name-was
e00n ~ Win no tiio So"Oluc WIN
unusual beauty she had quick intelligence.
enough vanity to make her wish to better her
position. and. although small and slight. she
possessed great strength and agility. impor-
tsnt factors In the bogs. where the resort to
physical force 10 the usual method OF settling
disputes among the women as we'll as the men.
30 by the time Sal was ~ years old she was
tho most beautiful girl and the most dan
cerous fighter in the region. a veritable queen
OF the bogs. But this wasn't enough for the
girl. She know that she was beautiful, and
she wanted fine clothes to set of her beauty.
money TO spend. and horses to drive.
"PK have hundreds some day where you
have pennies" she said to her father. q re-
spee table farmer. when he told her that she
must either reform or leave his house You'll
live to sec me so rich that l can throw money
away"
The handsome vagrant had already laid her
plans and determined to marry the richest man
In that part OF the State. That Jesse Huggins
was 80 years old and confirmed bachelor
was said Sl5O.00O and owned a fine farm at
Cream Ridge and he had shown sope interest
In the eay GT the s
6oussk eeping. This is what Sal herself says.
put her say that shs never has
t6cate. Be that as it may. from the day that
she came into his house the ruin Of old Jesse
tioa to his girl wife, afraid OF arousinG her un-
IJvernable temper. enslaved by her beauty.
and not daring to protest at her widest freaks
an which SAILS old friends. the cranberry pick
srs took part. for she still kept in touch with
as, OLD boon SSompan1bonSs and every picking
She began to drink and dissipated the old
mans money in diamonds. fast horses. and
out at nsS I no get ha doaen
her friends In the carriage and 60 galloping
from village to village. all shouting and sing:
breaking in II admittauce was refused. until
lhe vas as much dreaded as any Western des-
sasO At the head Of his as@sd band
IHa a.. nve companions. one other woman and
5ouf @ men. M drove into the place one midnight
sa eas and ne came
down cellar and locked him in: then sacked
the bar and carried away all the liquor they
Dsymont No one dared to appeal to the law. =
III any one ever had me arrested" Bal said
once. I'D never rest till killed him. and il I
Ss w. y, put away SAFE there's others would do the
a;Ins This saying was spread abroad; and no one
doubted that Sal meant all she said. 80
Sho l.o did what he could in reparation for his
sii Siies misdeeds; nothing WAS done. One day
o moneg 4. tod eRand Rer tha9
hadn't the money and couldn't get it unless
he sold SONG OF the stock or part OF the farm.
!, Bell them. thenl"' she exclaimed what
sss ~. eE 3. %PSPPsy dont Shas want
That night two barns on the place burned to |
ss 70. ground. The girl went to the old man the
,,.sIswS,'So .SSw DO get the money" she demanded
,hsa hsas got # and more after it: so much that
ionnI Saf the stock sold and
Ing In little cabin near Juliustown. making |
;S.ss ;Ssnsy III Iivipg BY doing days labor here and
ioitune. deserted him when his money was
Archer a,, il fsmonsown. She Is ~ w years Sd od
years arnk AND dsspation BanT essspa
SISs SiS more to work. she has gone back to her
Ss 5Ds kg b1s Ihes how
tSss.s tSSg mi mile 81 above whore the oyerseer had
Gown Gown to Pine Ridge and went to work with the
fimssr timers OF Drinking had palied on her for the
pefsr SSs shs Msn.9 worked hard and being siiiiul
az lot Fl the other picker were colored people
" Italians. hut n Of them knew Sal
ons nSeiFytthlng eigt wrpt well for few days. Thep.
" %hiSs shs men took their bushel tickets, each Of
soCSs ta calls us ior 90 cents and went of in the
ss n.at pP tbs M1nie
"a Stae e. ueEets. and when the gamblers returned
- ~ M plckers cabins Bill went of In a corner
~. G tsaiked AXE with Bal Huggins. That night the |
iclin lL disappeared, They were not back on the
ttSSaownR tSa..w day and Minnies wife. In great dis
tha' n,sht ,weht TO the oldest colored woman among
Ssiorps, rp,Ghkers. hers Nanny Jonas. and laid the case
Who iGGa Gs Leave It to me-" said Nanny Jonas.
ia accounted "knowledgesome" among
SVsv 1egt %itSS pes III FIX her SOS she won't run
Tv Thv.tw with ~ nobody's man any more"
Women Isnt wsnt Nanny and five other colored
Ia avn Wna went away after the days work Into
ikinr oiEas. 10 They returned shortly. hid some.
Vsps IN little hollow near the stream and
am, nome stne to bed. Bill and his com panion
Whisb ,su ieturn that night or the next morning.
cana WAS was Saturday, but that afternoon they
Boz vSacK.. SacK. BIZ went to his house: Sal to the
down heeIe the others were working. She put
fore sbaI hbeI basket near Nanny Jonas. but be-
Nom.nn que could begin work the old colored
bfanddhis arose rose and. with her own heavy basket
"Yom neg above her head. exclaimed:
can't nicI yItGAea n your last cranberry here. You
Iii bresIlk n no more. II you put your hand to 1t
Thae al my basket over your head"
looi sd dter ~ e women had gathered around. Sal
aW6spss mem tbn and for once was cowed.
Alnost tthe the matter nowf" she said. IN an
"Yous lou mind yours"
coutinu.Tde Tdesh n taking our men away from u.s."
bsrriasu Manmy Jonas. You pick no more
done n. here II you amt gone when we're
sitIs boz this evening we'l whip you out
elsssso elsss answer Ssssw Sal threw herself down and