“He was dazed and hardly able to stand after his exposure.”

Romantic entanglements led to an old-fashioned tarring-and feathering in New Jersey, according to an article in the August 11, 1910 New York Times. An excerpt:

“Mays Landing–Tarred and feathered by a gang of young men known as the ‘Terrible Ten,’ Frank Sichort of Cardiff, a small village in the South Jersey pine belt, was lashed shortly after 4 o’clock this morning to a post near the McKee City railway station and left to the mercies of the hordes of mosquitoes.

He was found there shortly after 6 o’clock by the passengers and crew of the early newspaper train to Atlantic City. The crew went to his assistance and liberated him from his sorry plight. He was dazed and hardly able to stand after his exposure. He was entirely nude save for the coat of tar and feathers.

The affair, which has no precedent in South Jersey, grew out of Sichort’s attentions to a widow, Mrs. Annie Schroell. Some months ago Mrs. Schroell’s husband died, leaving her with nine children, only one of whom is married. She conducted a profitable farm at McKee City and recently Sichort, who is a married man, began to go and see her.

His visits became more frequent, until it began to be rumored that he was endeavoring to induce Mrs. Schroell to board out her children among the neighbors and to desert the farm and live with him. Her son-in-law hearing this, met Sichort and warned him to keep away under penalty of a coat of tar and feathers. The man paid no attention to the warning.  

Members of the Terrible Ten Club got together last night and decided to carry out the threat of tar and feathers into effect. Before daybreak this morning, Sichort went to the Schroell farm and loaded a wagon with vegetables. As he was en route to the seashore members of the Terrible Ten Club halted him. He was pulled from the wagon and overpowered. He fought desperately, but was entirely stripped of his clothing. 

His captors daubed him with tar from head to foot and then covered him with feathers in true Western style. Feathers were even entangled in his whiskers. When the job was completed he was a sight such as is seldom seen in the Eastern States.”