New-York tribune., 1911-09-02
Representative Carter, of Okla
homa. ThrasheS Four Clerks I'M
Washington Department Store.
SAYS GIRL WAS INSULTED
Pummelled One Offender and
Used Cane on Three Others,
Who Tried to Interfere
Ready to Pay, He Says.
tFrom The Tribune bureau J

Washington. Sept Representative
Charles L. Carter. OF Oklahoma, gave
| four department store clerks a severe
thrashing this afternoon for insulting his
eighteen-ye daughter, Miss Italy
! Carter
Accompanied by her father. Miss Car
ter entered one Of Washington's most
/ fashionable department stores to buy a
coat. The Congressman waited behind
while his daughter stepped up to a clerk
and asked 10 see a coat. describing the
/ kind she wanted. Believing her alone,
the clerk tried TO engage her in conver-
satiOn Miss Carter. however refused
/ TO talk on any other subject than the
coat The clerk became officious and al
most insulting in his attempt 10 get her
10 talk 10 him.
At this tuncture Representative Carter
came forward and asked what was the
matter and why his daughter could not
get waited on. The clerk was imperti-
nent and the Congressman turned 70
leave the building, accompanied by his
daughter. When a short distance away
Mr.. Carter overheard some insulting re-
marks about his daughter and himself.
He asked his daughter 10 wait on the
sidewalk until he had settled with the
clerk He returned an gave him a
sound thrashing, putting him out Of
commission" he says.
BY this time three other clerks reached
the scene and attempted to interfere.
Carter used his cane to good advantage
on them and left the building.
In the mean time Miss Carter, who
was waiting outside. but in full view OF
the whipping post" created a sensa ton
by screaming several times. AS the af-
fair occurred in the busiest time OF the
day. when street Is crowded. large
crowd gathered. AS soon as the Con-
gresham reached his daughter he called
an automobile and ordered the chauffeur
to drive hurriedly 10 the nearest police
station, where he gave himself up. He
said tonight that he was willing 10 pay
any costs, as he felt satisfied he had
taught the four clerks a good lesson.
Describing his experience in the store
Mr.. Carter said
Continuing his advances. which were
followed by repulses, the young man be-
came insulting When I politely asked
the clerk the cause Of the trouble he be-
came infuriated. and said uncomplimen-
tary things about my daughter. l told
her 10 accompany me from the store
and as we reached the door he called me
several names I returned. and prepared
70 strike him when he started toward
me. I then gave him as good a licking
as my long experience on the plains as
boxer would permit l then started TO
leave. when three of his associates took
up the fight. I was plainly outnumbered.
but would not run. I struck right and
left with my cane, and finally routed the
entire bunch
He was not detained at the police sta
ton. and considers the incident closed,
unless the four clerks demand an in
vestigation.
Mr.. Carter represents the 4th District
of Oklahoma. and is Democrat. He Is
of Incian descent, being, according 10
his biography in the Congressional
Directory, seven-sixteenths Chickasaw
and Cherokee. Nathan Carter, one Of
his ancestors. was captured by Shawnee
Indians when a boy at the Wyoming
Valley massacre. Mr.. Carter says he
spent his early life as a Cow puncher'
in Oklahoma. He was educated at the
Indian school at Tishomingo in the
| Chickasaw Nation.