The Forrest City times., 1910-09-23
TEACHER H0RSEWHlPPED
\. (. B. Anderson Held up and Tn. mereiiuily Whipped by
 R. k. swan.

Aot iHfreqgeutly it becomes the aHtA 9i d newspaper to publ sU items 9s news Which are most unpleasant 5iaa tegretl4hie. | Hder such eircum- stances We can do nothing less We owe lO to our readers, and il k our business. We do so without prefu. | dlce CT any desire or intention to in iluence the public mind, but r,ther to reflect the public sentiment if We choose to comment upon any such Hem. The whipping of public school teacher in this county last Fri day Is one of such items that we men ton above
 There are many difIetent accounts of this very deplorable affair. and With a view to getting and stating nothing but the facts. the writer sought the principals and asked them Tor statement for publication. Prof. Anderson said. as near as we can quote him from memory that "as | was enroute to my school last Friday mo ming about 7:45 o'clock, and when about two and one-half miles this side of New Castle, MT Bob Swan stepped out from an embankment with |. pistol in his right hand, ana with an oath, o dered me to get out of the buggy. It was unexpected, and | was helpless. l got out, and he kept me covered with the pistol and ordered me to remove my coat. I asked him to allow me to hitch my horse, which he at first refused to do, but finally aid, and then he whipped me unmer- cifully with the whip in hs left hand don't know exactly how many times he struck me, but 1 told the grand Jury about twenty five licks The doctor counted twenty-nine marks. Anderson then pushed up his sleeve and exhibited some of the marks with scabs on them. When I went to get my horse he said. Hold on, I want to gsve you some more. l haven't given you enough yet 1 told him, yes. you have given me enough, and I showed him the stripes, and he asked where l WIS going, and 1 told him to teach my school. and he said, well go on, but don't yeu go to that court 1 went to school and taught for half day then came to Forrest City, and went before the grand jury and had him indicted, etc.
 Prof Anderson also stated the cause of the trouble to have been the fact that he "chastised two of Mr. Swan's s nepheWS few days ago for frighten- lag d little girl sehoolmate, and said ne did not mean to whip the boys anmercifully. and thought he gave them only genteel whipping such as they needed. =
 He handed us the following. and re- qaested it's publications:
 To Whom it May Concern.-
 We, the undersigned directors and patrons of the New Castle school, sit- uated in district No. ,. St. Fran cis county, Arkansas, hereby express our hearty approval and hereby ex- tend our universal cooperation to our teacher, Prof. N. c. B. Anderson, in his efforts to eliminate from our pub lie school the acts of rowdyism, wan tonness and cruelty that characterize the conduct of some of the pupils who have attended said school.
 And, feeling that our public school system is the most important branch of our state government and that each teacher is an administrative and executive officer in the line of his du- ties, we hereby condemn and depre- c te any act of lawlesSness that would in any manner, deprive our children of the benefits accruing to them un- der the laws of the state wherein pro- vision in made for public instruction.
 J. T. SMITH,
 l.. L. SHAwyER,
 w. II. PEAvY.
 Directors.