Rockport (IL) Daily Gazette, May 28, 1890, p. 2.
TWO BAD WOMEN VISITED BY WHITECAPS, DRAGGED FROM BED, TIED TO TREES AND
FLOGGED TILL THEY FAINTED.
Louisville, Ky., May 28-[Special] A band of whitecaps, thirty in number,
visited Corydon, Indiana, at one o'clock this morning and proceeded to the
house occupied by Lucy Noyes and Janey Flay, two women of questionable
repute. They women were dragged from bed, taken to the edge of town, tied
to trees and flogged until both fainted from pain. Their thongs were then
cut and the whitecaps departed leaving their victims where they had fallen
at the foot of the trees, limp and insensible. Besides their general bad
character, the two women were suspected of having set recent fires at the
fairgrounds.