Rockford (IL) Daily Register, June 2, 1887, p. 2. NOTE: This type of event is commonly called a whitecapping. "KNIGHTS OF THE SWITCH" Corydon, Indiana, June 2-[Special]-Shortly after midnight last night a body of masked men known as the "Knights of the Switch" rode up to the house of a family named Lynch living seven miles west of here, and taking Mrs. Lynch and her daughter, Mary, into the yard, stripped them to the waist and whipped them with switches till they fainted from pain. Mr. Lynch was compelled at the point of a revolver to witness the chastisement. The women bear a bad reputation.