The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-12
NEGRO WHIPPED,
EAR IS CUT OFF
BY MASKED BAND

CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE
,.,,uld be In town next day. but one
Igtbo men cooked his revolver anG
IA me to move around. ! pulled
,,v clothes and left the room with
nan ON each side OF me.
a"Nt the foot OF the stairs two
| ..,re men met us. we walked ouI
NV a,,r OF the hotel and the men
Ht,.1 but they cuffed and jerked
f.'ord SO followed. | knew then
W. ,,e were not going to the police
u.,J.r A block north OF the hote!
avs we're waiting. / was showed
l,N,, one. a cadillac, and we drove
~ There we're several men In the
'. ,1to which ! was showed. AL
a mon wore handkerchicfs over
VII rces. As the car started q
.",.f yag thrown over my head
."5 was knocked 10 the bottom oil
The car.
Knew None OF C0ptors.
cater what seemed "A long drive
ho car stopped and | was showed
t y.In a man on top OF me. The
,lpget was jerked Off my head and
/ sm1u grabbed each arm. Another
az drove up and several men, all
,gfb hlndkCrchiefs over their races
'1t ont There we're eight men wear
~, b9rlkerchiefs over their faces
rbe only men who were not masked
.. r'r four who came into the
hotel 1 had never seen them be.
,ora but I will know them the next
time ] sec them,
,,.' tne men half carried and hall
J,ogg,d mo about twenty-five feet
g-om ,he road and pulling my arms
sr5upd q small tree locked my
wrists with handouts. We were az
,5e foot Of the hill not far west OF
Cltoosl.
mon bpean whipping me. The whir
selle about thirty times and then the
men falked among themselves for q
bt You are a d democrat and
have been registering niggers as
dsmocrats and telling them how &c
II ,,e haven't you" one Of the mcr
sked as no walked toward me.
iod him that ! was n democrat and
4 had been registering colored people
"Glye him n one OF the other
men said and they whipped me ther
3 FOR n half hour. Several men took
e turns at using the whip. My back
finally became numb and l couldn't
A feel the pain nearly so much az al
q first. but / was sick. After they had
s. beaten me until / was nearly un.
conscious one of the men. a little fel.
low about five feet, four or five
a inches tall, walked up to mo anc
= with sharp knife cut Off my left
car He said something about max
0 Ing me eat It but one OF his com
II panlons who appeared 20 be Older
# than the others objected. The cal
NJ was thrown away.
Told Never tO Come Back.
"a after telling me TO leave TULSA
~ snl that II ever came back / wpulC
& be killed, the handouts were un,
III locked. / rolled TO the ground ant
he men got in their cars and drove
M oN Finally, l don't know how Ions
~ was, l got TO my feet and pulled
e On my clothes. l walked down e
NJ ,hs road TO a colored mans house
and finally woke him. / stayed a
~ bis house until about IL o'clock thi!
~ rgrnng when he took me to Clare
al more, While I was at his house hi
~ wife washed my ear and dressed 4
tli also washed my coat which wal
covered with blood.
In Claremore l went 10 n doctor
M and had my ear and back dressed
W didn't know what to do but finally
~ decided TO get the sheriff TO brini
M me back to Tulsa. some ColoreC
friends Of mine in Claremore go
word 10 the sheriff here. / don
W know, now. what to do. But l an
n going 10 stay up here until tomorrow
W n 4 aN -
II ny hotel"
W Smltherman would go no further
III he refused TO say whether he in
tended to stay In Tulsa and whel
asked whether he meant to fiji
charges against anyone he onl,
f. smiled.
WIssnger was taken from tn,
sag poolhall, 10 East Second. a
WV o'clock, according TO a storl
,o.1 at the sherlfrs office SATURDAY.
afternoon, which tailed with YER
nen OF tho affair given by Dan
ward proprietor OF tho hall. wis
singer said that a man whom he haC
houced lettering in front OF the hal
several times during the evening
walked up TO him and, showing
.a4se, requ csted him to g.
\ ~. - fN'f~' SAlAAlblls al uillfAl
WI the man with the badge proved
uIie and Wlssinger said that h,
1HAed to the door Of the hall
aTe another man, who ais,
"O"ed a star, Joined him.
Wissingcr Tells Story.
according TO Wissinger he an,
g 'Wo men whom ne suppose,
,,1e Wy officers started towards tn
,noe station, a block and a hal
49, About so feet east of the DO
Se stallion the two men showed hir
",. 2 a Buick auto parked at tn
49, winch Immediately backed out
w., west TO Boulder. turned an
,as, uI east on Second to Boston an
an 10 sixth. Three masked me
Al co,SI1 lhe rear seat of the ear, ac
h,sas hos TO Wlssnger. AS the ca
tb,aall thu east at Sixth a blanket wa
an avn wa over his heau ana he los
ur,1 1Snse @ OF direction from that tim
STE n ne was taken from the ca
, sJssEhere ss,shere in the country and com
w fSsF OUT OF sight of the lights Z
m'Shger said that tho tuo ma