The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-03-18
TIE PREACHER
ACROSS. LOG,
BEAT HIM
Georgia Governor
Is Making Personal
Probe OF Outrage

ALLAN L A, "a, March IA mob
OF twelve TO fourteen masked White
men seized the Rev B. y. Hennlng
ham. Methodist minister, took him
TO the woods near the town OF
Winder. Barlow County, and fogged
him numerically. alter stripping his
clothes from his body last week.
, Rev. Henningham, who IS a British
subject. came to tins country from
Kingston. Jamaica a delegation OF
ministers headed by the Rev r. II
Singleton, oi Big Bethel A. N. +.
Church, went before the governor OF
the state and demanded an iryesh=
cation.
Preacher Tells Story
The mob victims story ot the affair
IS as follows:
They came 10 a colorcd mans
home by the name Of Oscar Bergamy
where |, Rev Henningham. ~as CIV
ing him elementary training, about
O'Clock p. m, March o, l922. seized
ei..e without a moments warning
dragged me from the house, oafcss
headed and placed ME in an automo
bile and drove about ten miles toward
t,ainesvillc. Ga While on the wav ]
=
punished and they answered by hold
ing pistols on me and slappng me III
the face. We will tell you Wha you
have done, your damned 1aiholle
bishop came here preaching Osthoh-
ri,m and got aWaY before ~ could
gel him Ihcu b. -ent You here
nlth your Catholic doctrine. edueat-
inq these damned Aelrors and MAX
mot
through with YOU. your bishop nor no
ono else will come here preaching that
damned Catholic stuff
NAhen they reached about thc ten
mic poiut, they took ne out OF the
automobile and carried mr. into The
Moods and stripped me OF uy pants
and placed me over log and beat me-
Nlh something like leather trap
uunl one OF them said that was
enough Then they made me get up
and told me TO run and not iaok back
or they would shoot me dead
They told me never to be ,eeu at
Winder anymore, II 50, they would
hill me.
II was compelled 10 walk eight
nilc- back to the home al oae ot my
meinber, through a heavy rain1orn,
bareheaded They robbed me 81 the
money had, which wa SP.13 and
took ms rlergv book MY te9.ament
and other articles.
.sOn March I. 1922. went To some
on my members and they raised
n1onec TO hello me get out ot Nmdcr-
Il am Methodist and know but
xcrv little about any other doctrine,
and have had no cause to preach "a
tholicism to my people. No one
white or eolored, IN Winder can tes-
tjlv that | have ever done thing OF
the kind since | have been pastoring
thcrc. ! feel that II is tho greatest out
rage eyer perpetrated on my llte.
II am from the British West Indies,
Island OF Kingston, Jamaica.
fSigncd) b. y. lenningham.
Henningham told the governor he
went from Rome to Winder in No
4 vcmber, preaching his first sermon the
q 6rst Sunday in December. He knows
q nothing about the Catholic church, nc
said and had never been in one more
q flan twice in his life He has never
~ d any trouble before, and the "ele-
4 ,ntary training, referred to which
4 was giving the barber, Oscar Ber-
nv, was spelling, arithmetic, gram
lr and like studies, merely in an
ort to help him improve himself.
The men who attacked him, he said,
acre not dressed in gowns, but all
sors.tveralls OF the same kind, and
.ach wore a mask over his face, some
II the masks were white and Others
,lue. lie readily recognized they were
! White men from the flesh he could see
hrough the holes around the eyes,
nd from the hands of the men, which
ere uncovered. 1t would be impos-
lbIc he said, for him TO identify any
them because of the fact that they
ere so completely and successfully
isgused
Direction has been given by Cover
Or Hardwiok that the matter must