Turner Blanchard, 32, Consented to Castration by 15-Year-Old Girl, Not Forced by Masked Men, Sept. 19, 1925

Blanchard Admits No Mob Attacked Him as Reported. . . Sheriff Fowler Says Union County Man Confessed to Him that Operation Was Performed by Girl. . . He Consented to the Operation. . . According to Alleged Confession Because Girl Accused Him of Not Having Been True to Her

Monroe, Sept. 19 (AP)—Sheriff Clifford Fowler said today he had secured a written confession from Turner Blanchard, 32, admitting that a 15-year-old girl relative of his wife had performed an illegal operation upon him last Sunday and not a band of hooded men as he had first told the authorities.

The confession stated that the operation was performed with his consent in the presence of his wife and by the girl after they had accused him of “being untrue.”

Sheriff Fowler said the affair would not be pressed further so far as he was concerned.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Sept. 19, 1925

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