...said that he cut it off and jumped out. Doctor Swinney did not tell me that he saw this himself, but he said he knew the parties concerned in it. I have...so for two or three days, and then sent for Doctor Swinney to cut it out. I do not know whether he said he cut it out or got there just as the other physician...

...castrated with a butcher knife, a witness recounted (perhaps exaggerating, perhaps not) that Klansmen "took the woman, laid her down on the ground, then...and threw away the key, and then turned her loose." In North Carolina, a white girl with a bad reputation was assaulted by the Klan; one witness testified...

...cohabiting with a black man, the instigation was fairly unambiguous.69 In response to her offense, "they took the woman, laid her down on the ground,...it up, and threw away the key, and then turned her loose."70 For two or three days she suffered, in excruciating pain and nearly immobilized, before finally...