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RELIEF WORKER TIED TO TREE REVENGE FDR ALLEGED CALUMNIES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW ORLEANS, August 9. (Received August 10, at 10.30 a.m.) For allegedly spreading calumnies against Louis Willis, aged 17, her father and brothers tied up Oscar Kay, aged 47, a relief worker, to a tree and allowed her to beat and slash him with a steel rope, 100 neighbours standing by not interfering. The father said: “ I believe I did what any other parent would do to protect the honour of his family.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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