San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
GOOSE GREEK
WOMAN FLEES
At TER FLOGG|NC
Applies to Federal Court
in Houston for Pro-
lection.
DEPUTIES PROBE CASE
Masked Men Whipped Man
and Woman Fri
day.
DEPUTIES PROBE CASE

Houston, Tex, Jan. 1S.-Mrs. r. Fl.
Harrison. victim of masked floggers at
Goose Greek, left her dome Saturday
afternoon and came TO Houston TO ask
protection from Federal Judge j. G.
Hutchinson.
II am convinced that the local au-
thorities here and at Houston will do
othing for me in this case" she de-
clares. thus far they have confined
their questions to Inc as to whether Mr..
z. A. Armand (also a flogger yictim)
and were anything except good friends.
am going to Houston 10 appeal to the
federal authorities. / am afraid to re-
main in Goose Greek"
Goose Creek Saturday was in state
of marLrd excitement as the result Of
the sensational events that have taken
place there the past week. Always a
hot bed of the Ku Klux Khan, always
torn by the khan issue, the town is again
in a state of ferment following some
months of comparative quiet.
Two deputies are at Goose Creek in
vestigating the flogging, Sheriff Bin
ford said today.
Every effctt will be made by these
deputies to learn the facts IN the case, '
the sheriff said.
Was Attacked Fridly.
Armand it was learned. it Catholic,
and one of Mrs. EeIrison's dauSLi";S l.
attending a cjIycrt school in Houston.
aThe attack was made about o'clock
Friday night a week ago." Mrs Harri-
son said. "Mr. Armand had just come
to my house TO bring me basket OF
fruit. l was sick and in bed. The
men entered the house simultaneously,
through several doors, and made us cap
tive. My S-year-old daughter gave the
first warning by saying, mamma.
there's the funniest looking man out
there-hes white all over" Before we
could move the men were upon us,
dressed in strange DISCUSSES, and terri
flying us with their mere appearance"
The couple-Mrs. Harrison and Ar
mand-were dragged out of the house,
thrown into separate automobiles, car
ried off in the direction of Cedar Bayou,
and both were flogged. Besides. Mrs.
Harrison's long hair was roughly cut
from her head. Throughout the fog
ging both were threatened with death.
May Go to Grand Jury.
"Two or three members of the party
kept insisting that Mr.. Armand and |
be killed right there" Mrs. Harrison
told a reporter. xii them both" they
cried sand throw their damned bodies
in the bayou"
"The men seemed divided as TO what
to do to us finally. Several seemed
| to utterly lose their heads when the
first blow fell across my thigh, and
| heard threats TO mutilate both of us.
expected death every instant. Others
in the party, though. declared that the
whipping was sufficient, and so they
finally took us back TO within a few
blocks of my house, and threw us out
of the carr
Armand is still confined to his bed
at Goose Creek.
Judge c. w. Robinson Of the Crimi.
nal District Court said:
"The grand jury is not in session to,
day. but will meet again Monday. II
nothing has been fone by that time l ex'
poet 10 instruct the foreman the same
way I did in the other whipping case
| Mt Cedar Bayou. 1t will be interesting
\ 10 note just what is done in this matter
by the authorities who now say they
are investigating