The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-08-01
GEORGIA GIRL IS COWHIDED.
1t is Claimed that the Attackers are
Prominent in Georgia City.

According to the Augusta Herald.
Essie Carter, young white woman,
is in the Macon Hospital in serious
condition as the result of horse
whipping inflicted upon her Saturday
night at Dawson by three men. She
was brought to Macon on a cot for
medical and surgical attention.
While refusing to give the names
of the men who whipped her, the
young woman says that the man who
piled the whip is a prominent citi-
zen of Dawson and the father of a
young man whose attentions to her
| caused the trouble. She says she
was dragged out of her house and
while two men pulled off her cloth
ing and held her the third admins
tered the flogging. She is striped
and cut on every inch of her body
from her waist down.
According to Mary Carter, the wo-
mans sister, who brought her to Ma
con, w. S. Dozier, clerk of superior
court of Terrell county, did the whip
ping, while Clyde Dozier, his grown
son, and Pope McClung held her. V.
o. Dozier, eighteen-year-old son Of
w. S. Dozier, is the youth whose in
fatuation for the woman is given as
the cause of the cowhiding.
w. S. Dozier was asked by long
distance telephone for a statement,
but refused to discuss the affair.
According to Mary Carter,
crowd of a dozen or more men, in
two automobiles, went to Essie Car
ter's home about midnight Satur-
day. The servant refused them ad
mission, Whereupon she was knock
ed down and the Doziers and Nc
Clung entered and searched the house
until they found Essie Carter in her
room. She was taken outside, Mary
Carter, asserts, and after being strip
ped was beaten by the elder Dozier,
while Clyde Dozier and McClung held
her and the other men stood around
with pistols to prevent any interfer-
ence.
After Essie Carter had been beaten
into insensibility, Mary Carter says,
the crowd rode to her house two
blocks away, determined to punish
her in similar manner. Mary Carter
says she was warned in time to es-
cape in the darkness and hid in a
nearby grove until after the crowd
had dispersed. She brought her sis
ter to Macon on the first train and
placed her in the hospital.
Friends of the Carter women in
Macon say they will employ Macon
attorneys to prosecute the Doziers
and others who took part in the
horse-whipping.
because it will bring disgrace
upon his son, am not going to tell
the name of the man who lacerated
me with a buggy whip" declared
Essie Carter, although 1 really think
he should be exposed. His son had
been coming to see me, and 1 had
been warned to leave Dawson, but
l stayed there, and that is why l am
in this condition. l told the young
man that he should forget me, but
he said he couldn't and persisted in
his attentions.
saturday night his father, ac-
companied by two other men, entered
the house. They seized me and drag
ged me out into the street and two
of them pulled off my skirts and un-
derclothing and the father then beat
me until I tainted.
'The man used long buggy whip
which was concealed under his coat
when he entered the house. He is
one of the leading men of Dawson,
and is wealthy, and his son stands as
we'll as he does. For that reason, be-
cause it will shame and humiliate the
son, for whom l feel a sincere affec-
ton, l am not going to give any
names.
Dawson is my home. 1 have lived
there many years, and my people live
there now. My way of living may
not please everybody, but l am not a
bad woman
The young woman is being taken
care of here by friends who have
raised a fund to defray the doctors
and hospital expenses. The doctors
say she will recover, but may be Grip