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#BlackWomen | "Shamefully Mistreated by Her White Guard," The Monon [IN] News Friday, July 3, 1903

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Black Women Is Shamefully Mistreated by Her White Guard.

Submit Negroes to Torture

Stories of the Abuse Heaped on the convicts Are Shocking-- peons Are Beaten With Straps and Suspended by the Thumbs.

Montgomery, Ala., special: Several more arrests have been made in the peonage and conspiracy cases. Among them were though in L. A. Grogan, deputy sheriff of Coosa, charged with assisting in carrying Emma Paesron to condition of peonage,” which means that he used his badge and his office to delude this an dother negroes into thinking they had really been arrested for something and of J. Wilburn Harrison against whom there are fice indictments for conspiracy to injure and oppress.

The Monon [IN] News Friday, July 3, 1903

The Monon [IN] News Friday, July 3, 1903