HABERSHAM COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPERS. Floggings 1927 ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jacqueline King PREPARE INDICTMENTS IN GEORGIA FLOGGINGS Authorities Charge 6 Women and 7 Men Were Whipped In Habersham County. Atlanta, Ga., August 7 (1927) Following numerous floggings during the last year in Toombs, Emanuel, Treutlen, Montgomery and Stephens Counties, it was revealed yesterday that authorities are investigating and are about ready to prosecute citizens of Habersham County, in North Georgia, who are charged with being implicated in thirteen whippings. Six cases occurred eighteen months ago and the remaining seven about the middle of May. Of the victims six are women, two of them mothers. The whippings occurred at or near Baldwin, Ga. The Grand Jury will meet tomorrow, when indictments of ten or twelve Habersham citizens will be asked. It is stated that a majority of a masked and robed band of sixteen men have been identified and that more than fifty witnesses have been summoned. In the majority of the cases the women were let off with five or six strokes, but the men who sought to prevent the whippings were not so leniently dealt with and were given as many as thirty lashes each and warned not to interfere again. Frightened by their treatment, one family of victims moved from Georgia to Charlotte, N. C., but will testify in front of the jury. Among the alleged victims of the night riders were Mrs. Amanda Pitts, 50, and her daughters, Kelza, 20; Mary, 18, and Lizzie, 16; Mr.s Amanda Cockran and her daughter, Zetta, 19, and Lon Hill, all of Baldwin, and Orin Galloway and Harvey Shirley of Cornelia.