The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-01
WHITE CAPS.
A Dastardlv Crime Committed By
Them in Georgia.
Neither Age Nor Sex spared-One viotl .,
Dragged From Ills House to .he Woods
aud Whipped Numerically, and His
Wife Outraged by the Mob.


CARRoLLToN, Ca, March 24-The
homes of Sam Bowen, David Britt, Mrs.
dary White and Frank Eason, in Car
tol county, twelve miles southeast OF
here, were visited by twelve men just
after midnight Thursday morning.
Sam Bowen was taken out into the
woods, a hundred yards from his hcme,
and whipped till he can't live.
While part of the mob was whipping
Bowen, Henry Benford, one of the
mob, with the assistance of another
man, outraged Bowen's wife in Bow.
ems own home. The mob next went
to the home of David Britt, who is SO
years old, and when he made resist
ance to the mob as they entered hia
home at the hour of midnight, ne was
knocked senseless, and his 7O-year-old
wife was knocked down for trying to
protect her feeble husband.
The mob next went to the home OF
Mrs. Mary White, widow so years
old, and beat her uamercifully, and
Green Simpkins, so the woman says,
tried to outrage her afterward Frank
Eason's home was next visited by the
mob, and he was knocked in the head
with a pistol. Mrs. Bowen and Mrs.
White are sisters, and old man Britt is
the womens father. During the strug.
gle all the parties were recognized by
Mrs. White, Sam Bowen and Frank
Eason, and warrants were sworn out
for Henry Benford, Price Benford, Pleas
Wright, Green SimplSius, Doc Guanells,
Rob Avers Tasca prool-a willie Rroolys
John Thighen and Josh Thighen and
most all have been arrested and jailed
They were refused bond.
MThe object of the mobs fury was Mrs.
White. Mrs. White and j. II. T. BEN
ford, father of Henry and Price Ben.
ford, have been fussing about a certain
fifty acres of land near l'enford's home.
Old man White, former husband of
Mary Il. White, and from whom she is
now separated, decided the land, with
out the knowledge of his wife to j. II.
T. Benford for loan of 500. When
the money became due Benford wanted
the land, but Mrs White objected.
Henry Benford, Lewis Ward, Price
Benford and others went to Mrs.
Whites one snowy night in January,
threw Mrs. Whites household goods
out in the snow and put her out in
the cold world and nailed up the
door. Later they set fire to the
house, but friends of Mrs. White put
the fire out 1t did not burn the
widows home. The women went back
INTO the house again, and she has been
thrown out twice since. The Benfords
have been arrested and bound over to
court for the above crimes, but Henry
Benford got possession of the house.
and the trial was to be had at New
Mexico district court ground Thurs
day on the right of possession of
the land. Mrs. White and all her wit
nesses were visited by a mob and
otherwise maltreated, as decribed
above, and they were given orders not
to appear at court Thursday, as they
would be visited again Thursday night
their throats cut from ear to ear and
their bodies riddled with bullets There
has been much talk of lynching. Eight
of ten men are behind the bars and
officers are securing the country,for the
other two. Great excitement exists
over the matter