The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-19
A White Woman Tells How She Was
Brutality Whipped.
SHE SAYS SHE WAS PUNISHED
Because She Spurncd Imprope
Proposals from the Warden
of the Prison Where She
Was Con fined.


Crises i'm one of the Georgia State
prisons is creating a great deal OF talk
and Indignation in that State. The
matter was recently Investigated at
Milledgcvillec where the prison is To-
Gated. Miss DeCris' statement sub
Stantially, was that she was treated
kindly at first. Warden Alagood
made improper advances to me i'm his
room when | did clerical work. He
attempted to careSS me. l jerked
away. He went in the other room
and sat on Il bed. He told me TO
come in there. refused. He told
me not to tell or he would make it,
hot for me, and he has surely kept his
word. saw him kiss white con
vict in the hospital.
Il talked with Mrs. Alagood the
day before the whipping. used no
diSrespecLful language. / did not
stop talking when ordered. ! told
another white prisoner about Mr..
AlagOOd'S advances. She said if was
Il lcwd woman to submit, il not to
protest: that | would have an easy
time il | would submit as that was
the only way To get along with him. -
The other woman denies being
kissed. She denied the conversation
at first, but afterward she admitted
it in substance. The evidence of i'm
proper proposals was not held up 10y
the other witnesses who say that Ala
good never approached them. At the
whipping on the bed. it was ordered
| TO draw the clothes tight and this
was done.
Miss DeCris continues: "A phySi.
clan was present. | was severely and
brutally beaten and | cried. | was
put in the field, under guard, with
negro women next day | was kept
there of and on for four weeks.
was terribly bliStercd. They allowed
me no rest. | nearly tainted and fel
in the field once. l never wrote i'm
proper notes to any one.
Il was 50 terribly bruised by TN,
whipping that L could not sit down
There were welts as big as my tinge
and the bruises were dark and blue ant
deep for two weeks"
This was SubStantiated by one othe
witness, but was denied by woman
who slept in the same room, but no
in the same bed.
She said she had To pnt a greaS
cloth m her wounds.
Other witnesses who heard the lick
and cries, say the whipping was severe
They heard her ''hollering."
Miss DeCriS says she overheard Mrs
Alagoud telling the house woman thi
morning that the committee was com
ing, and you all must stick TO IN
and the captain" Witness and Mrs
Alagood all deny this
The DeCriS woman says she wa
tantalized by negro women as lazy, n
good, a diamond queen, no bette
than they, etc.
She says that Mr. Foster saw her i
the field and protested against tn
same; he had TO order y lagood TO sen
her To the house two different times
and at last he did so, but put her t
work in the potato patch back of TN
house afterwards. She says her rt
, fuSal to see a reporter was dictated b
Alagood and through fear. Alagoo
says she refused OF her own accord I
, see correspondents.
DR.. Adams evidence was only i
his Official capacity as physician. III
, did not consider the whipping unuSu
ally severe. Warden Moore left fC
| Atlanta tonight.
There is rumor that the legiSl;
tive committee is coming tonight.
Mrs. Alagood says she asked hC
I husband to whip Miss DeCris for il
subordination and for impudence.
| The leather strap was exhibited
} 1t is an awful instrument of punisl
I ment- about inches wide, and ;
t inches long, weight, say 3 pounds
t solid leather, no holes.
Warden Moore instructed ever
witness TO talk freely and withol
fear as he would protect them.
The general impression is that AL;
, good will be discharged as the in
mediate circumstances did not at a
Justify whipping and the punishmer
D was entirely too severe in any even
. the woman should not have bee
{ worked in the field continuously in I'll
! hot sun.
The affair is at fever heat and
{ the entire topic OF the town. TT
l telegraph Offices is crowded wit
? messages on the subject from ever
! where.
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