KENTUCKY MORALS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1114, 19 November 1883, Page 2

KENTUCKY MORALS.

A Man and Woman Stripped, Whipped and Ordered to Leave the Country.

Chicago, October 2nd.—ln Hillsborough, a little town in the edge of the mountain region in the eastern part of Fleming county, Ky., lives Mrs Lucretia Mungh, a widow, young and well-to-do. Michael Kelly, a miner, who is also young and good-looking, took a fancy to her, which she reciprocated. Ho spent a great deal of his time at her house when not at work. This had been noticed for some time, and some of the ladies of the town appealed to Mrs Mnngle’s sense of selfrespect. She paid no hoed to them. Then a committee of men visited Kelly, and advised him to quit visiting Mrs Mungle, but he told them to mind their own business. This was six weeks ago. Since then the pair have been ever together, and on Wednesday night last, a body of persons, masked and otherwise disguised, broke into Mrs Mungle’s house suddenly after midnight. There they found Kelly and Mrs Mungle In a jiffy they pulled Kelly out and also Mrs Mungle, only they were a little more gentle with her. Five minutes later they were lashed naked to trees, in sight of each other, and whipped. The mob admonished the victims that they would not be responsible for their lives if they did not get out of the country in ten clays, and thus having appeased their sense of outrage, the mob departed.