The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-29
A YANKEE OUTRAGE
Some Latter Day chiyalry Up
North.
A WOMAN HORRIBLY BEATEN
BY Twelve Men in MiddletoWn,
Conn.,, Because They Did
Not Like Her
Ways.

A dispatch from MldoletoWn, Conn.,
says a whitecsp outrage Of a disgraceful
nature was perpetrated in Centrebrook,
village in the southern part OF that
county, Wednesday night.
A woman was set upon by twelve
men and so seriously chastised for an
alleged infracticn of the moral law that
she may die.
There are slight clews to the men who
were implicated in the coWardly assault
but there is little chance that they will
be punished, because it is likely that
they were prominent citizens of a most
laced and law-abiding community.
Concerning the provocasion furnished
to the woman-beaters by Mrs. Adolph
Fritz this story has nothing to do. She
is a comely woman, the mother Of three
children, and a good housewife, as far
as is known.
Previous to the shocking occurrence
Of last night it had not been known IN
the little town that there was any ami
NOUS against her on the part Of the
self-constituted regulators Of the town.
MASKED MEN ATTACK HER.
Mrs. Fritz took q stroll with young
Italian Of the place. While walking
along the railroad track near the Essex
depot twelve masked men sprang from
the underbrush and made rush for
the couple.
The Italian escort Of Mrs. Fritz made
a wild leap over fence, and was out
Of sight in minute. He was not pur-
sued.
The twelve chivalrous citizens Of the
commonwealth Of Connecticut cared
nothing fer the man. 1t was their de-
sire to ehastise the woman, and chastise
her they did.
Two Of the masked assailants pushed
meal sack over the Woman's head and
choked her until she could not utter al
alarm.
She was then stripped of her clothing
and tied to tree by the roadside. The
men appeared to be frantic. They tore
up the very earth in their desire to be
in on the punishment.
When the woman had been stripped
she was whipped most cruelty.
Buggy whips, blacksnakes and limbs
Of trees figured as instruments Of casti-
CATION in the haods Of the whitecsp.
Under the awful punishment she en-
dured, her breath cut off by the tightly
wrapped sack, the woman became un-
conscious.
When the regulators had glutted
their desire to reform by haggellation
they cut the woman loose, tore her
clothes to bits and cast her body in the
dust Of the road.
She made the best Of her way to her
home upon her recovery, crawling on
her hands and knees.
Being strong and self-relisnt she had
made a gallant fight against her twelve
brutal assailants.
She managed to gather mask,
whip and mans soft hat. These she
dragged to her home with her, and
they had been turned over to the po-
lice.
No efforts will be spared, it is pro-
claimed, to bring the perpetrators of
the outrage to justice, but it is feared
that efforts will not avail when the
prominent persons back Of the affair
show their influence.
The woman is in serious condition.
Her physical injuries are most shock
ing, but they have not had the effect
Of the nervous shock.
Investigating parties who visited the
scene Of the assault say that the place
resembles battle ground. The cloth
ing of the woman was literally torn to
shreds and many blood-stained boughs
of trees lying by the roadside bear evi-
dence to the vigor with which she was
whipped.