The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-01-20
WHITE GAPS WORK
Fifty of Them Making Things Lively
in Kentucky.
AN EXCITED COMMUNITY
They Murder One Man, Give Another Fifty
Lashes and Read the Riot Act to
Several Others.

HARRoDsBURG, KY, Jan. 15.-The reg
ulators, or white caps, who have for the
last two months been terrorizing not
only the west end of this county, but
also the adjoining counties of Wash
| ington and Boyle, were out in force
last night, numbering not less than
/ fifty men. These midnight mauauders,
masked and armed to the teeth,
visited quite number of country resi-
dences and called out the men, whip
ping some very severely and reading
the riot act to others, warning them to
mend their ways, leave the country or
take the consequences.
They then went out to the village of
Leesburg, six miles from this place,
and surrounding it, keeping guard.
They forced open the cabin door of
Josh Mitchell, forcibly dragged him
from his bed, carried him about fifty
yards from his home and tried him be-
fore Judge Lynch. So soon as Mitchell
took in the situation and was convinced
they meant to do him great bodily
injury, he broke through their line and
made haste for his cabin, where he
had loaded shotgun. His wife had
gotten up and lighted a lamp and just
as Mitchell was nearing his door, his
body, outlined by the light, was per
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buckshot and he fell a corpse on his
own doorsill.
Immediately after killing Mitchell
they attacked the residence of Brack
Bottoms and forced open his door.
They made his wife strike light, but
+ could not find their man. His wife
averred that he was absent from home,
: but this they did not believe, for the
children kept begging that they would
Z not kill their father. After making a
/ thorough search and when about *
I. leave, one of them perceived some SCOT
! falling down the chimney into the
) smoulderidg fire. Looking up the
J chimney he saw Bottoms, who haC
e been frightened by the shooting wheI
q Mitchell was killed and had climed VI
i the chimney for safety. Dragging hin
e down by the heels they carried him of
2 and gave him fifty lashes on his bare
e back, decorating the flesh at ever,
q stroke. Bottoms had been dragged
l. from his cabin by rope slipped arounC
r his neck, but the pitiful cries of tn
II little children and the earnest praye
e of the grief-stricken wife aroused
e feeling of sympathy in the hearts 0
r his prosecutors and they relented
10 little and concluded instead of hang
t. ing him to give him a severe beating
o. and this they did with vengeance.
is Their next attempt to take the lay
% into their own hands and to punish
in man without fair and impartial tria
N was frustrated. Oscar Reynolds ha
Of the country, but he publicly proclaime
re that he had done no wrong and woul
ly stand his ground, his house being hi
he castle. They visited him, and, fndin
IN his doors so strongly barred that the
s. would not give to their heavy pressure
S, commanded him to open the door. H
of refused, as he had heard the shootin
and the cries of Bottoms, and was read
for them. His reply was, "never; brea
in or scratch under.n They held
In council of war, but as the night was az
vancing and they had some of them
es long distance to go they concluded /
ed postpone their marauding. Mountin
he their horses they rode away. There
ia great excitement in the neighborhoo,
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