TAR AND FEATHERS
1•;XT RA OR DIN AP. Y EPI SO DE S. NEW YORK. July 18. Two extraordinary tar-and-feather episodes occurred during the week-end down south. Mrs Beulah Johnson was taken from an hotel porch at Tenaha, Texas, bv a dozen men in Kin Klux Klan robes. They motored several miles into the country, stripped her, and coated her body with tar and feathers. Later she was arrested on a bigamy charge. Tlie other case occurred at Miami, Florida. The Rev. Philip Irwin, a British subject, an archdeacon of the English Episcopal Churches, who is doing church work among the negroes, was seized by masked men and carried *to a wood. He was tarred and feathered, put into a hack, and brought back to town. Aft- Irwin told the police. He said that he had been preaching the social equality of the negroes and advocating intermarriage. They threatened to lynch him, unless he left Miami in 48 hours.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3515, 26 July 1921, Page 21
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