The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-25
lASHEDBARE BACK
Farm Hand Was Taken From
Home and Whipped.
Husband of Woman Tells Story
of Assault.
ADMITS CONFESSION.
of White Gaping Said
He Would Leave.
One Man Paid So to Get Victim
Out of House.

Hutchinson, Kan, oct. 25.-Charles
Walter told George. Young some gossip
about a farmers wife.
George Young told ]. MuIvaney.
J. Mulvaney told his wife
Mrs. Mulvaney told Mrs. Joe Thomp-
Mrs. Thompson told her husband
Joe Thompson traced it back to
Walter.
And that's why Charles Walter was
horsewhipped, and why four farmers
are now on trial on charges of fe1on-
ious assault and kidnapping.
And that's why business in Part
ridge and Center and Troy townships
is practically suspended while all the
folks, with their wives and families
are in attending the trial now in prog
resS in district court.
The Husbands Story.
Joe Thompson, who after hearing of
the gossip being circulated about his
wife, took prompt steps to demand a
retraction, told the story of the punish
ment melted out to Charles Walter,
whom he charged with making the
statements.
Z had known Walter about two
years. said Mr.. Thompson. He work
ed for me fourteen months. I fired
him the day before Christmas for talk
ing to the neighbors about me.
II first heard this story he was cir
culating about my wife two days be-
fore this horsewhipping.
7 went to Smith about it and we
decided the best thing was to go to
Walter and straighten up the lies he
had been telling. / took Smith and
Young along as witnesses.
after Smith and Young had got
Walter out of the house and brought
him down the road to where I was I
told Walter what Smith had told me
about the stories he was telling about
my wife.
He never opened his mouth /
asked him twice about it, but he new
err said anything. Then Smith order
to my place to let Walter face my
wife with the lies he had been telling. |
When the Whipping Occurred.
when they arrived at Thompsons
lantern and went out when we heard
them come into the yard. She held
the lantern up to Walters face and
said:
stories you have been telling about |
me?'
HE hung his head and didn't say
a word. Then they all went to the |
barn. and Walter backed up against |
the end of the barn. Mrs. Thompson |
picked up q whip and struck him a |
few times on the breast and side.
.fWalter backed UP and laughed at |
her and said: That don't hurt me |
any
Lashed His Bare Back.
Mrs. Thompson then turned to her !
husband and said, Joe you make him !
take off that coat. I'll see if I can't /
hurt him.
Mr. Thompson grabbed him by the
back of the neck and bent him over /
and jerked up his coat and shirt, and /
then Mrs. Thompson lashed him on /
the bare back q few licks.
Walter finally said. I'll talk. I'll |
talk lied about you Mrs. Thomp
son.
All right said Mrs. Thompson.
Did I do the things you said i'd l did
Walter Told His Side.
Chas. Walter was on the witness
stand. He told his side of the sensa
tionaI story, told how he had been
lured from his bed and nome ME IN the
dark of the night, had been forcibly
taken to the Thompson place and
there whipped.
He denied that he had ever talked
about Mrs. Thompson.
Walter was asked whether he had
the night of the horsewh MP
ping when confronted by Mrs. Thomp-
son that he had told the stories ABOUT
her, and had confessed that he lied
about her.
.sOf course I admitted it. Who
wouldn't when being dashed with
did you promise that you'd leave
7 promised everything they de-
,.,u -
showing the decorations and welts ana
cuts made by the whipping ne received,
was introduced in evidence and shown 10
the jury
back. evidence was presented to show
that his ankles and feet were cut by the
rope which tightly bound him when ne
was taken to Thompson's place, and that
he sustained the fracture of rib IN the
rough handling he received
George Young, one of the 'Whitecap
party admitted the witness stand that
he had received pay for his part in the
Selling and whipping of Walter.
zoe Thompson gave me s.. Smith ar
ranged to hire me. He asked me If l
wanted to earn a couple of dollars. He
said it would be in honest way L
didn't know what was up
Young said his part in the affair was to
get Walter outside of his house
When did you get your money!
Right after Walter went out of
Thompson's gate after the whipping Joe
THOMPSON handed ME the money. Then
Mrs. Thompson set up lunch and we all
had something to eat. 1 got home at
1920 that night
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