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The Alma Record
September 8, 1897

        VICTIMS OF A MOB
        Masked Men Maltreat a Couple at West Harrisville.
        
        Harrisville, Sept. 3. - This vicinity is excited over an
      outrage perpetrated by a masked mob upon HIRAM McKINNA and
      MRS. FRANK HAWS. McKINNA was recently shot and slightly 
      injured by MRS. HAWS' husband on account of McKINNA's alleged
      familiarity with MRS. HAWS. During Wednesday night two parties
      of masked men took the woman and McKINNA from the latter's
      house, stripped them of most of their clothing and marched
      them to West Harrisville, three miles distant, flogging them
      both with whips en route. The hair was cut from MRS. HAWS'
      head, and finally the couple were left tied to a telegraph
      pole. Later McKINNA cut the ropes which bound them with a
      penknife, which he had managed to conceal, and returned home
      with the woman, who was in a pitiable condition from the
      blows she received. There have been no arrests yet.
      
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