Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-11-06
YONKEKS NAN IS WHIPPED By
KU I<LUN KHAN.
feter MCMAHON Says Mob in South
Carolina Tried to Hang Him TO Il
Treo; Driven From the Town.
TAKEN HitOM IlEIRESS

Aico, Orl'en RON the Town.
TAKEN NROM nEIRESS
Declares He Was Engaged TO Guard
Girl Who Sought nor Snare III
BIG Estate.
Philadelphia, Ucl. zV.--Petcr Nc
Mahon, OF las elm street, Yonkcrs,
n. T., arrived here TO-DAY on q nortl.
bound Pcnnsyhyania Train with hia
body bruised and Gu, from an "a
tempted lynching and severe beating
he Says he received from Il gang of
eight masked men Monday night at
Trenton, S. c. His condition was such
that he was taken to Hahnemann
Hospital for treatment.
His neck and wrist were SCARED by
ropes ant his clothing was stiff from
blood. The members Of the mob were
dressed as Ku Klux Klansmen, Me
Mahon said and he was taken from a
train on which he was accompany q
young woman, an heiress, for whom
ho was acting as u personal guard.
Mcmahon said that the mob boarded
train at Trenton on which were he
and Miss Florence Powell, of Aiken
5. q. She is the young woman who
he says, had engaged hlm to guard
her. According to his story. Mcmahon
was taken In an automobile several
mlleS from Trenton in tho woods A
rope was tied about his neck but was
found too short u hang him with.
lie was then dragged through the
woods by tn" rope, Later, with many
threats mtmharS IF
CD declaration that Miss Powell
was not competent To administer hcr
estate and this they tried to get Nc
Nahon to sign. lie refused. They
then stripped him Of his clothing
and tied him by tho wrists to a tree.
lic says he was beaten with heavy
whips.
!. WARNED TO REMAIN SILENT.
After this his assailants blindfold
cd him; rhcy took HIM to Il house in
an automobile and fed hm' A physi.
cIan attended his wounds. He was
later taken in an automobile about
seventy Wiles to Denmark S. G
where he was placed on u north bound
train. Money was given ham to pay
tor his iare to New York. He was
warned that he would DO killed 1t
he spoke to anyone before he reach
Cd Washington He was told he would
be watched on tho train
According to Mcmahon the train
made thirteen stops before arriving
At Washington and at every che OF
these Il man camo in from anothc:
and warned him to keep quiet. Flo
said he was too weak to leave tho
train ut Washington.
Mcmahon said he was in the en-
p!oy of Miss Powell, whose blind faith
or, Joseph Powell, he asserts, is vice
pi esident of tho South Carolina
Bank and head of the Powell Hard
ware Co. Miss Powell had been visit
ing friends in Plainfield N. j. all sum
mer. She receives the income from
a $4,000 trust fund and recently be
gan to think that all was not as 1t
should be. salspecting other relatives
VINO, Mcmahon said, had recently
been handling the elder Powell's
afalrs. In recent division of the
fathers property he said he and Miss
Powell did not believe she had receiy
cd fair share.
ASKED TO GUARD GIRL
Last week Mcmahon says, Miss
POWELL asked him to accompany her
IN the role OF a personal guard back
l" Aiken while she investigate. Short
~ after their arrival there Mcmahon
says they were warned to leave
town and fearing for their personal
safety, consulted District ATTORNEY
thurman, Of Aiken County at Edge
llold, S. c., and departed for Comm
bus Immediately to get better protec
tion.: ''"'o'
When the train arrived at Trenton
5: c., Mcmahon asserts he, was taken
off, '"N1'
McN1ahon says he believes Miss
iowell was kidnapped at the time of
ms own experience. He will be semi
from here to his home in Yonkers
MCMAHON who is fifty-fivc wears old
says he had been in the service NJ
me late Levi p. Morton OF Charles
n. Plersol, vice president OF the Man
TAN Bank, and Judge Buckstabcr
OIL the New York Supreme Court.
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