Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-02-18
Four White Men and Eight Negroes
Whipped BY Night Riders.
POLICE JUDGE AMONG THEM.
= Estimated That 1000 Shots Were Fired
And One Young Woman Struck by
Shot That Grazed Her Face.

Eddyville, KY, Feb, 16.-NiEnI
riders. three hundred strong, VISITED
Ed2yville at / o'clock this Sunday
and whipped twelve men, four ~, OF
them white and eight negroes. Inc
white men, severely beaten with
switches, are:
Police Judge c. W. Rucker; Lee
sell Woods, former City Marshal;
PrSss Fralick, who occasionally acted
a,gDeputy City Marshal, and Grace
Robertson, saloon porter.
The connection between the whip
ping of the white men and the ne
groes and the tobacco war in West
ern Kentucky is not apparent and
no one has been able to offer any ex-
PLANTATION, None of the victims was
ktAwn to be either active or influen-
tial in opposition to the farmers
pooling movement. No attempt
ww9tnade at destroying stored to-
bacco.
The riders were we'll drilled and
we'll armed. About 25O entered the
town from the direction of Trigg
county and the remainder from the
opposite direction. The home OF
Judge Rucker was badly damaged
before the riders were able to get
hold of him, the walls being riddled
Selth bullets, doors and shutters be-
ing torn off. etc.
After taking each of the men to
the rear end of Woods drug store
on the bank of Cumberland river,
and whipping them, they were al
lowed to return home.
After the whippings had been adj
ministered, the mob awakened Coun-
ty Judge W. L. Crumbaugh and
waIyned him that his immunity from
similar punishment hereafter de-
pended entirely upon the friendship
he was expected to show the tobac-
co growers organization. He was
told that his gray hairs alone were
responsible for his being spared this
time.
Judge Crumbaugh is over "a years
old and has been vigorous in de-
nouncing the acts of the night riders
in this county and calling attention
to the fact that the outlaws should
be punished to the extent of the
law.
Judge Rucker had said he would
resist the night riders, and this
CAUSED the visit paid him.
The members of the mob were
masked with black bands across the
eyes, and they wore the usual white
scarf on the shoulder. None of
them was recognized. They enter
ed town 1890 a. M, and left S:45
m.
The mob came into town after
hitching their horses a half mile out,
stationed their sentinels about the
premises of every person to be visit
ed and at the firing of volley of a
hundred shots as signal from the
center of the town. the raid began.
.
Police Judges Home Wrecked
Alhe Police Judge, who has had the
name of being a bad man about
fighting, was the most difficult to
arouse, His window shutters were
torn from their hinges, the doors
thrown open and volley after volley
fired into the house before he came
y out. Upon his appearance, he was re-
quired to surrender his guns, which
after the fogging, were returned tc
MIN disnembered and he was
charged never to again put them
stogether. To this request he agreed
Officers Kept in Doors.
The town was completely in pos
session of the raiders for three hours
The Sheriff and City Marshal were
warned that It would be best foi