Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, August 26, 1893, p. 1. WHITECAP EXPOSE How the Harrison County Gangs Were Organized Sworn at the Muzzle of a Gun The Oath the Members Took-Bound to Get on a Jury When a Brother Was the Defendant-A Circuit Judge a Member Indianapolis, August 26-A Corydon, Indiana, correspondent sends the following history of the whitecap organization: "It is a well known fact that every township in Harrison County had an organized band of whitecaps a few years ago, but at this time there is but one 'lodge' or 'band,' and it holds regular meetings at a point about six miles south of Corydon. The organization is going to pieces because of the public sentiment that is growing in the county against whitecap methods. Three years ago there was a county organization of whitecaps, and there was a 'chairman' and 'secretary' of the society. All the thirteen townships had organization, and each of these had a "chairman' and "secretary.' County assemblies were held and delegates were sent from the different organizations. Meetings were held in 'sinkholes' in the forest and sentinels were stationed to protect the meeting from intrusion. "Signs, grips and passwords were used just as in other secret societies. The obligation was a most binding one. The candidate was required to get down on his knees and look into the muzzle of a gun while he took the oath. He did not obligate himself to go on any raids, as that was to be done voluntarily, but if he did go, he obligated himself to obey all commands of the captain. Furthermore, he pledged himself to give such assistance as he could to his brother, if he should ever be arrested; to go to the place of trial and get on the jury, if possible. One of the laws was that if a whitecap should be wounded while on a raid he should be shot by his associates. 'Dead men tell no tales' was their password for a long time. "About fourteen years ago an eminent citizen was 'chairman' of the count organization of whitecaps. He was no less a personage than the judge of the Harrison circuit court, if the statements of certain whitecaps be true. The judge is now dead, but his memory is cherished by his former associates. Just how the whitecap organization came into existence no one seems to know. It has been fully forty years since the first case of whitecapping was reported At that time they called themselves 'paderoles' or 'patrols,' and thus it seems that the idea came from the south where 'paderoling' or 'patrolling' was practiced in the days of slavery.