Description
“Cowhided” - - Last Saturday night Ed Jackson and Henry Collier were both reposing quietly In the Platte City boose. Collier was in for drunkenness, while Big Ed Jackson was serving a term for brutally beating his horse. Collier and Jackson are both “gemmen de color” and are old offenders and have often appeared before Hlzoner Mayor Flannery for plain drunks and disturbing the peace. But let’s go back to the reposing. They were quietly reposing, as we have said - quietly reposing In the city calaboose, when they were aroused about one o’clock by someone who had entered the boose. They were both ordered to come out of the boose. They were ordered to follow their guide and learn a few points. They saw they were in the hands of the whitecaps and went along without further persuasion. They were taken across the bridge and down the Leavenworth Road. Here they were treated to a good horsewhipping and ordered never to again appear in Platte City. They went off without further advice and have not been seen around these parts since. Collier and Jackson are not mean negroes but make themselves a nuisance by their continual drunks. We hope the lesson given will not only improve them, but will be well considered by some other people around Platte City who may expect an early tea party at any time.
(Researcher's note: "Beginning in the 1870s, multiple secret vigilante groups were formed across the United States to violently resist the changing social and moral standards of the country. These groups, collectively known as White Caps, originated in Southern Indiana, and later spread across the United States in the last part of the nineteenth century, committing brutal acts of terrorism against anyone whom the group deemed a threat to the moral and social standards of their specific community." https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/items/447ea248-5d87-4641-b917-c44a8987b95f)Date(s) of Creation
6/7/1901
