Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-16
WOMAN IS BRANDED
WITH RED-HOT IRON
BYMASKED RAIDERS

TILLAMOCK, Ore, Jan. 15.-
White lines in the flesh still mark
the spot Mrs. Nevada Standish was
branded on the breast with a red
hot metal cross by white-robed and
hooded men, Webster Holmes, her
attorney, told the Associated Press
Saturday in relating woman's expe-
rience with the hooded men.
District Attorney T. H. Goyner
admitted today that he had been in
vestigating the incident, which oc.
Cured shortly after midnight No
vember 81.
Mrs. Standish had been twice &C
quilted of charges of being implicat-
ed in moonshining activities.
Two masked and hooded men ap
peared at the door Of Mrs. Stand
ishs home shortly after midnight
November 81, according to an &C
count she gave Mr.. Holmes.
Mrs. Standish was at home alone
with her three d-a-half-year-
son, her husband being i'll in a hos
pital at Portland" said Holmes. "A
neighborhood woman had been Wis
ting her in the evening and left
about midnight and shortly after
ward heard a knock at the door. On
opening it she saw two men mask
ed with white hoods tied about their
heads so that she could not recog-
niZe them.
"They both sprang in, and one
of the pair, large and powerful seiz-
ed her, placing his hand over her
mouth. The other took from his
pocket a small cross about one-and-
a-half.inch in the perpendicular di'
rection, by three.quarters of an inch
in a horizontal direction. Holding
this by a pair of pliers he heated it
with matches which he lighted, and
when it was hot the men applied it
to Mrs. Standishs breast.
''One of the men said, You have
been wanting a cross, and we will
give you On fiery one.
1.-THE men then told her to say
nothing about it and left the house.
Owing to the fact that Mrs.
Standish had been indicted with
other persons on a charge of moon
shining, in which case L defended
her and in which she was finally
acquitted, she was afraid to report
the matter to the authorities and
nothing was done about it.
THE first time I saw the brand it
was scared over but the scab has
Mrs. Standish yesterday the brand
was marked by white lines in the
flesh
WOMAN ASKS COURT
TO PROTECT HER HOME
HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. 15.-An in
formal appeal was made Saturday tC
Judge j. C. Hutcheson, Of the fed
eral district court here, for protec
ton for Mrs. r. II. Harrison, one
of the victims of masked floggers
at Goose Creek. The appeal was
made by friend of Mrs. Harrison,
Judge Hutchinson held that he
could take no action because the
federal court had no jurisdiction.
Mrs. Harrison reached Houston
today and declared that she feared
to remain longer in Goose Greek,
and that she did not intend to re.
turn to her home there unless she
could be guaranteed protection by
the courts.
This appeal to Judge Hutchinson is
the only one that had been made to
any officer so far by either of the
victims. r. A. Armand, the man who
was whipped Simultaneously with
Mrs. Harrison, still is confined to
his bed in Goose Creek, unable to
get out. Deputy Sheriff Hamilton,
who visited him, said today that
Armand is covered almost solidly on
one side from his waist down with
sores, caused by the severe beating
received Friday night, January 5.