The Greenville Enterprise

Ku Klux—A Man Tarred and Feathered Verdict, Served Right.

A correspondent of the New Paltz Times writes from Bangall, Dutchess county, giving the following description of the tar and feathering case which occurred in that town: Some three weeks ago a man by the name of Williams, from Fishkill, visited our locality and eloped with the wife of "Grip" More. They visited Newburg and other places, and lived together as man and wife. On Tuesday last a constable by the name of Cyrus Houghtaling went after the runaways and succeeded in bringing them back. The wife and her paramour immediately repaired to the home she had deserted at McIntyre station, on the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad. On her arrival she informed her husband that she had procured a divorce and that she was no longer his wife, causing him to go upstairs and retire alone, while she enjoyed the company of her seducer. The neighbors, learning these facts, decided to rid the community of the presence of Williams. So on Wednesday evening a party of men in disguise went to More's dwelling. Finding the culprit there, they, after divesting him of his wearing apparel, dragged him naked through the snow about twenty yards, and then clothed his body with a coat of tar and feathers. He was afterwards ordered to leave the place immediately. The woman attempted her lover's rescue, and she received a portion of the tar in her face and hair. After the modern Ku Klux had departed, the injured husband furnished another suit of clothes to the despoiler of his home. Williams also had the impudence to ask More for money, and while the latter was engaged in counting it out, the former seized the pocket-book and made off. In the same way some $18 and a note for $400.

What makes the whole affair appear of a hellish nature, Mrs. More is the mother of five children, the youngest not quite a year old, and her husband a toil, hard working and saving man. This case makes the fifth, that wives have abandoned their husbands, during the past twelve months in the town of Stanford, and the people are heartily tired of such actions; hence have evoked the aid and counsel of Judge Lynch.