Have you ever heard of the KKK -Klu Klux Klan? The Whitecaps were a similar group - many people thought they were a part of the KKK. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Jones" <dijon@ckt.net> To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Sent: 05/13/2012 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Brown County: Robert Robinson Arrested fortheWhitecapping of Finley Stretchberry > Anyone know what whitecapping is? I’ve never heard of it! > > Diane > > > From: Randi > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 10:14 AM > To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Brown County: Robert Robinson Arrested for > theWhitecapping of Finley Stretchberry > > > Elkhart (IN) Truth, June 7, 1902, p. 7. > > AFTER BROWN COUNTY WHITECAPS > > Nashville, Indiana, June 7-Detectives have been at work in Brown County > for > several weeks trying to run down men who have been whitecapping victims > here. It is thought they went to work about the time the last grand jury > failed to return indictments against suspected men, and it is thought the > detectives were employed by the state authorities. The work of the > detectives has resulted in the arrest of Robert Robinson, a farmer near > Belmont, who was captured by Constable J. W. Kennedy on a warrant charging > him with helping to whitecap Finley Stretchberry some weeks ago. Robinson > will have a preliminary hearing in Squire Mann's court at Nashville, June > 17. He is under $100 bond for his appearance. Robinson was charged with > taking a part in the whitecapping of Robert Palmer, a Baptist preacher, > several months ago and, at his trial in the circuit court, was acquitted. > It is thought that other arrests will follow. > > > The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who > have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by > the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, > Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, > Scott and Washington. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 7133 (20120513) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who > have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by > the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, > Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, > Scott and Washington. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It is my understanding that the KKK opposed those belonging to a race other than white and those that belonged to a religion other than Protestant. It also my belief that the whitecappers started out with very good intentions to uphold the law in places where the law was stretched so thin that crime was rampant. Then those folks that informally enforced the law began to make things personal and moral, for example, as someone mentioned earlier, to whip a man for not supporting his wife. One of the last cases in Monroe County involved a man who, if I remember correctly, bought land at a sheriff's sale. The original owner wanted it back. So he and some others whitecapped the new owner in an effort to "encourage" the man to return it. Two of the whitecappers, Tobe Snoddy and another man with the surname Adams, eventually served jail time because the governor sent special prosecutors to Monroe County to aid in the prosecution. They were the only whitecappers in Monroe County to ever serve time. Until the state brought whitecapping under control in Monroe County, there was even talk about relocating the university. Because whitecapping is a personal interest of mine, there is a lot of information about whitecappers and whitecapping cases on the INMONROE Rootsweb list. A search of whitecapping on that list will return a lot of hits. Randi On Sun, 13 May 2012 16:46:51 -0400, Jan Flowers wrote: > Have you ever heard of the KKK -Klu Klux Klan? The Whitecaps were a > similar > group - many people thought they were a part of the KKK. > > Jan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diane Jones" <dijon@ckt.net> > To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> > Sent: 05/13/2012 12:22 PM > Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Brown County: Robert Robinson > Arrested > fortheWhitecapping of Finley Stretchberry >