Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA (Tiverton, Massachusetts)
1889 - Tarred by White Caps

Fall River, Mass., Jan 24. - "Sim" Sherman has been boarding at the house of Clark King on what is known as the King road, near Bliss' Four Corners, Tiverton, R. I. The attentions of Sherman to Mrs. King excited comment by the neighbors, and they, to the number of twenty, went to the King house supplied with coal tar. They invited Sherman, who had been previously notified to leave town, to come outside. When he accepted the invitation he was taken in charge by the mob, his head face and hands covered with tar and he was told to run and not to stop till he dropped. He obeyed the order at once under an impetus from the crowd and fetched up in the Niagara engine-house in this city, and managed to become presentable by the next day, when he told of his adventure with the White Caps. Sherman has not been back to Tiverton since. The affair occurred last Friday. Sherman is about 45 years, and Mrs. King about 40 years.

The Inter Ocean
Chicago, Illinois
January 25, 1889

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