One day Murray foster was working outside when he heard a woman
crying (or screaming). Following the sound, he found his neighbors
wife, badly beaten and in the boars pen. He took her out of the pen
and took her home (whether it was his home or hers is unknown).
He found out later that her husband had beaten and thrown her into
the pen so the boars could finish her off.
As the story goes, Murray, his wife and 8 children were in bed asleep
when the "White Caps" (a vigilante group) woke them in the middle of the
night. They dragged Murray from his home and tied him to a tree and
beat him unmercifully! Frank, age 16, tried to help his father, but
as like the others, he was held back by the "White Caps" and could do nothing
but watch.
Murray was beaten so severely, he was crippled and bedridden for
life, leaving only his wife to care for the children and himself.