The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-08-20
DUNKLIN MAN IS
HORSE-WHIPPED
Wife DECLARES
Mrs. Lulu Mcclure Asks
Mayor Kage to Issue
Warrants for Gang.
NIGHT RIDERS WERE
MASKED, SHE SAYS
Took Husband and Chum and
"Larruped" Them while
Tied to Trees.

The story of a wife's tardy and in
sistent efforts to obtain justice for her
husband who, she said, had been
horse-whipped by a gang of masked
men who took him from their home in
the dead Of night several weeks ago,
yesterday was told by Mayor Kage
after Mrs. Lula MCGUIRE, of Truman,
Ark, had appealed to him as United
States Commissioner, for aid.
Mayor Kage was unable to issue
Federal warrant of any description
against the alleged culprits because
the mails were not used in connection
with the affair.
He advised Mrs. Mcclure to call up
on the Prosecuting Attorney in the
county where the whipping took place.
She told the story of the whipping to
Kage.
The McGuires, until last April, lived
in Maiden, Dunklin County. They had
been married for several years. Nc
Guire is a railroad man. On the night
of April %, last, the hOrse-whipping
took place without warning of any
kind.
Mcclure was at home with his wife.
Mrs. McGuire's brother was in the
room as we'll as young woman living
in the neighborhood. The Mcclure
home is set apart from those of their
neighbors in the immediate vicinity
and is a lonesome part of town.
About 9:30 o'clock, the McGuires
were startled by the sound of horses
on the road, which came right up to
their front door.
Not a word was said by any of the
horsemen, but those inside the house
heard some of them dismounting.
Within a few moments the front door
leading into the room in which the
McGuires and their companions were
sitting, was thrust violently open and
in strode two men.
They were armed. Black slOuch hats
drawn down over their eyes hid their
faces and the lower features were dis
guised by handkerchiefs tied about
their faces reaching to the eyes.
Mcclure still was sitting at his
wife's side. One of the men pulled a
revolver from his pocket and covered
the two men. The other strode over to
the chair occupied by MCGUIRE. He
seized Mcclure by the arm.
The wife sprang up and attempted
to speak to the men to persuade them
to leave the place without molesting
them. "The nightrider" carried a
heavy black-snake whip in his right
hand. He cleverly twisted it about in
his hand and struck Mrs. Mcclure
over the head with the butt end of the
whip.
She was knocked to the floor and
stunned. The other woman and Mrs.
McGuire's brother were pushed aside
and the two men picked Mcclure up,
one on each side of him, and carried
him outdoors.
There, Mrs. Mcclure told Mayor
Kage, there was a company of about
q dozen horsemen. All were masked
so that she could not tell the identity
of them.
They swung Mcclure up behind one
of the horsemen, bound his hands and
arms and rode away at fast gallop.
They carried him several miles over
the line into New Madrid County,
where, in a wood, they dismounted,
carried Mcclure to a tree, tied him
up and whipped him.
One of the men, before the whipping
began. Mrs. Mcclure said, tore the
shirt from her husbands back, barring
the flesh. The heavy lashes Of the
black-snake whip then were laid on.
The men beat him till the flesh had
been broken open in several places,
she said, and her husbands back was
a bleeding mass of beaten flesh.
He became unconscious from the
pain. They revived him and before
loosening his bonds, told him to get
out of the State and leave that part
of the Southeast
With a great deal of difficulty, Nc
Guire made his way to a farm house
where he got aid, and the next morn