AMERICAN OUTRAGE
TARRED AND FEATHERED.
YOUNG WOMAN ATTACKED
(Per Press Association —Copyright.) NEW YORK, July 25. At Frederick, Maryland, 50 men and several women waylaid Miss Dorothy Grandon aged 20, while she was walking on the public highway at nigh! time. They stripped, tarred, and feathered her, and left her unconscious. A passing farmer found and carried her lioine. The girl is at the point of death. Her body is terribl. burned and scarred. A tale of jealousy and outraged moral sensibilities lies behind the occurrence, which lias aroused and shocked public feeling. Miss Grandon came to Frederick on a visit, and while the guest at various parties given in her honour, attracted attention, bhe received anonymous letters asking her to leave the town, but she declined to do so, and several townswomen made a charge that their homes were being broken up and their men were neglecting them, due to the social gaietUMiss Grandon has identified nine of her attackers who applied the tar. All these have been arrested.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 28 July 1924, Page 8
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