The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-17


ment in the vicinity Of Winamac runs
high from the brutal and inhuman treat
ment that Mrs. Matte Noe. wife of
Lewis J. Noe, a gardener living one-half
mile north Of town, has of late re-
ceived at the hands of her husband.
Mr.. Noe at one time was one of the
county's most prominent citizens. his
wife being the daughter of ex-Treasurer
Jacob Byers, he himself having been
elected a number of times to the Office
OF county surveyor. Some years ago he
commenced drinking TO excess. as a
result of which within the last year he
had been adjudged insane and for a
short time incarcerated i'm the Long Cliff
asylum at Logansport. He stayed there
but a short time, however, the officers
of the institution pronouncing him more
devilish than insane.
Since his return ne has continued TO
drink and been more inhuman and brutal
in the treatment Of his wife and family
than ever before.
During the last month he has carried
his meanness on with such a high hand
he has become upbearable to his neigh
bOrs and last night J. NJ Conn came TO
this place and filed the proper affidavit,
the result OF which Gardener Noe Ian
CUISINES WltllH the county jail.
When the matter was brought before
the authorities il was learned that for
the last two DAYS that he has spent his
entire time within the saloons and his
nights I'm abusing his wife.
Yesterday morning while engaged in
whipping his wife. his eldest daughter
undertook To assist her mother, when
he turned her and with a club
gave her a hot chase for a full half
mile. several times striking the child and
at one time he knocked her to the
ground. This was seen by NeighbOr
Krebs. who came to the rescue of the
child and while the inhuman father was
engaged in a quarrel with krebS the
child escaped to Neighbor PEPPERS,
where she is now lying at the point of
death from exhaustion and injuries from
the club.
Last night neighbors. who had heard
the screams Of the family, gathered
about the Noe residence. where they
found Mrs. Noe seated in a chair with
her babe in her arms, it being the thir-
teenth child born to them, eleven Of
whom are living, while the unnatural
father was amusing himself by slapping
his poor wife in the face with his open
hand, striking her first with the right
hand and throwing her head 10 its nat
ural position with a return blow with
the left. Not satisfied with this fiendish
treatment. he would seize her by the nose
with his left hand and punch her in the
eyes with the stiffened fOrehnger of his
right until her eyes became so swollen
and discolored that she now looks as if
she had just finished a four-rOund bout
with prize-fghter
Today when Prosecutor Steis called at
the Noe farm to learn the particulars of
the case ne found the following white
cap notice posted in a conspicuous place
IN the rear end Of the garden which read
thus:
Lewis Noe. YOU have been in the
habit of coming home drunk and trying
TO kin your wife and family long enough.
We are going 10 stop il. We intend to
watch You and if this notice does not
stop you. you Will be taken out and
hOrsewhipped, and if that is not suffi-
cient We will then swing you up to a
tree. Please stop or you will be brutally
punished WHITE CAPS
Noe is stiH in jail and will remain
there until it is fully decided as to what
steps shall be taken and the nature or
the proceedings that shall be brought
against him, thus leaving his family in
perfect safety.
However, excitement runs high and
ugly rumOrs are heard from the sturdy
farmers within the neighbOrhOod, so
that Sheriff McCay and his several
guards or special deputies need not be
surprised il they should be called upon
tonight To witness a whipping bee with
IN the court house yard and that their
prisoner. Nee, should be the victim.
WINAMAC. Jan. 1f.-Special.-The ex-
element in Gardner Noes case has not
abated in the least and the culprit still
languishes in the county Jail
Now that he has had time for reflection
over the Nervousness of the offense, he
begins to realize the danger of not only
the result Of legal proceedings, but what
may be the result Of the unpleasant tenn
per OF the Infatuated citizens.
All day long ugly rumors have been
afioat that the threat of the white-cap-
perS would be carried out and Sheriff
Mccoy has left no stone Unturned to
cure the prisoners safety. He has been
begging the sheriff to give him an audi
ence with his wife. but Mrs. Noe abso-
lutely refuses TO have anything more to
do with him
The Sentinel correspondent visited the
Noe residence again today and found
that the little daughter. Mamie was
improving nicely and will be able to be
up within few days. but the mother
IS suffering severely from her bruises,
her eyes being nearly closed. the skin
scratched from almost the entirs surface
OF each chee'c and her face swollen to
twice its usual size.
A conversation with the poor woman
reveals the fact thac she and the chill
dren have been living almost wretchedly
for the past two years. frequently being
driven from the house to spend the
night in graneries. stacks and such other
places as would afford them safety and
reasonable shelter
Only a few months ago when the wife
was about 10 become a mother the brute
drove her from the house at the point
OF a dagger and she was compelled TO
seek shelter and safety in the second
story Of the wheat granary, where she
spent the entire night.
The citizens are united in their denun-
citation of the man and he stands in
danger Of being punished severely by
hand Of white-caps before the law has
had a chance to prescribe his punish
meut-