Indianapolis (IN) Journal, May 9, 1892. Corydon, Ind., May 7-One year ago Mrs. Priscilla Slaymaker, an aged widow and an inmate of the county poor asylum, was so unmercifully whipped by Silas Staver and his wife, keepers of the asylum, that she has been a physical wreck ever since. At the time, C. W. Cook prosecuting attorney, had Staver and his wife arrested. The prosecutor received a whitecap notice to dismiss the case, but he did not and the keepers were fined. The poor woman, who has several small children, left the asylum and at once set about to obtain damages. She was unable to employ an attorney until last week when H. H. Richard instituted suit for the woman for $2,000 damages. On Friday night when Richard called for his mail, he was delivered a letter from the whitecaps ordering him to dismiss the case at once and saying: "If you go one step further with that case we will give you 250 lashes on the bare hide. We went through iron for Deven and Tennison (consider Deavin and Tennyson as spelling variants)-the men who were hung by a mob from the bridge at this place-and we will go through fire and steel for you. We would not give you any notice if it was not such a busy time." The letter was mailed at Corydon and postmarked May 4, and most of it is too profane and vulgar for publication. Nine years ago Richard received a similar letter with regard to a lawsuit he was prosecuting, but his friends here say he has the grit to stay with his clients both in and out of court. He has, since receiving this letter, caused his witnesses in the case to be subpoenaed and expresses his determination to prosecute the case to the end.