“Saturday constable Sol Mershon took Samuel McGraw, and his brother, Charles, to the Cincinnati work house, to serve a term of sixty days, the sentence including twenty-five dollars fine each, and costs. They were sent by Squire Foster, of Carey’s Run. We are only sorry there is not a heavier penalty for such brutes. They were sent to the work house for cruelly beating Samuel McGraw’s wife1. The wretch had been in the habit of beating her, and on the last occasion he and his brother joined in whipping the poor woman. The brutes were both half drunk. If they ever return to Carey’s Run the citizens should provide themselves with hickory switches and scourge them out of the country.”2
- Lavina Frances Sissel McGraw
- White caps needed: Dastardly brutality, which the law does not sufficiently punish. (1892, March 5). Portsmouth Times, p. 4.
