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    1. [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Crawford County: Whitecaps Attack H. G. Taylor and Mrs. Stilson
    2. Randi Richardson
    3. Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, January 8, 1892, p. 4. WHITECAP MISCREANTS AGAIN A Man Flayed Alive and a Woman Nearly Drowned Evansville, Indiana, Jan. 8-A passenger named Mason arriving here from English, Indiana, reports a fresh outbreak of whitecaps there. For some time there has been a great deal of talk concerning H. G. Taylor, a prominent farmer, and the wife of a neighbor named Stilson who is away from home. A body of about 25 mounted men rode up to the Stilson residence Tuesday night where they found Mrs. Stilson and Taylor in bed. They took the couple in their night clothes to a house nearby where they tied Taylor to a tree and punished him in a terrible manner compelling Mrs. Stilson to witness the man's sufferings. After turning the man loose, they took the woman to a stream, ducked her under the water several times, and then took her back home, leaving her completely exhausted. She was discovered in a critical condition. Feeling is very bitter against the foul work of the regulators, and there is talk of an organization for the purpose of punishing whitecaps.

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