The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
WHITECAPPERS IN MO.
Brutally FlOg Six Men and
Cause a Girls Death.

Missouri City, Mo-, March 9.-White-
cappers, presumably part of the old
Clay county vigilance committee, play
ed an engagement in Missouri City this
morning, with the result that Odii Sum-
mers, alias Reuben Blue, is in a critical
condition and five other men are nurs-
ing backs made sore by beating. An
incident of the visit, although perhaps
not the direct result of it, was the death
today of the daughter of Perry CLANCY,
whose house, where the girl lay sick
the mob invaded.
Shortly after o'clock this morning
about sixty men, all masked and some
wearing false boards, rode into Missouri
City, and, after tying their horses and
holding a whispered consultation, went
to the Jail. They battered down the jail
door with a sledgehammer and seized
Odii Summers, alias Reuben Blue, who
was locked up on charge of vagrancy.
They marched him to the public school
grounds, block or two away, where
they compelled him. despite his praying
and begging, to strip. Then, tying him
to tree, he was beaten with a twisted
grass rope an inch in diameter, receiv-
ing forty lashes. When he was relea sed,
Summers was warned to leave Clay
county and never return on pain of
lynching.
After Summers had been disposed of,
the mob went to the home of Perry
CLANCY, a respectable teamster. and de-
nanQ6d OIL Chaney Ihat MS nephew, Jim
jackson, be surrendered to them.
CLANCY whose daughter was very ill
of consumption, sought to reason with
the mob, urging them to be quiet and
not come into the house, but the leader
thinking he was trying to give
Jackson time to escape, struck him over
the head with a revolver and the men
forced their way into the house.
Chaneys son, Lee, hearing the commO-
ton, came downstairs, and tried to pre-
vail upon the mob to leave, but he was
forced to stand outside in the snow in
his bare feet for his palms.
Just after Lee came down, Jackson,
the man wanted, also came down and
surrendered to the mob. which then
Jesse Yates, Jr., Joe Asbury, Dennis
Stevens and Ben Monkers, taking each
of these men with them as they went.
After all had been gathered together,
the five - Jackson, Yates, Asbury
| Stevens and Monkers-were tied to-
| gether and taken to an old rock quarry.
Stevens, when ordered to strip for a
whipping, protested that it was too cold
One of the men remarked that I'VE will
make it warm for yOu," and Stevens
stripped. Thirty lashes with the same
rope with which Summers was whipped
| were bestowed upon him. jackson,
| who is only boy of IS, got ten lashes,
and each of the others twenty-five.
After the whipping, all were notified
three days. Asbury, who owned some
| property, was told that he must dispose
| of it and leave with the others. He sold
| his property today and will leave to-
| morrow for Denver.
Four of the men who were whipped
| are married and have families. They
| declare that they do not know why
| they were punished, but the fact is that
| they are suspected of wholesale stealing
| of hogs and chickens from which the
! farmers in this vicinity have suffered
| for some time. All but Summers and
| Jackson are miners. Summers is a com
| mon vagrant and Jackson is a jockey.
The identity of the men who COM
| posed the mob is not known; it probably
| would not be very safe to know who