The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-17 00:00:00

GARROTTERS UNDER THE LASH.

Last week eleven garrotters were thrashed by four
warders, who took alternate turns in the infliction of the
punishment, at Armley Gaol, Leeds. The first man
who was attached to the halberds was Edward I I ivgins,
convicted of a robbery with violence at Leeds, and who
was ordered to undergo twelve months' imprisonment,
and, further, to receive twenty strokes with the
cat-Wolin« tails. He cried out on the reception of the
third stroke, aml continued pleading for mercy until his
sentenoe had teen administered. Patrick Ellis, eon.
victed of a very bad case of assault and robbery at
Huddersfield, and who was sentenced to seven years,
underwent his punishment very badly, complaining
as soon as the third stroke reached his shoulders.
William Walker, who, along with a woman, had
been convicted of robbing Mr. Coatenow with violence,
and who was sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment and twenty lashes, appeared as if he was
about to faint at the fourth stroke, but afterwards
called out vigorously for mercy. His back was badly
discoloured by the operation of the cat. Martin
Hughes, sentenced to 18 months and 20 lashes, cried
out ' Murder" at the second stroke of the cat and at
every succeeding stroke. Thomas ',opium, sentenced
to five years' penal servitnde and 20 lashes, also ap.
peared to be heavily punished. There were alto several
other convicts—the whole number being eleven—simi-
larly treated, and if one could judge by their cries and
appeals for mercy, and the weals upon their shoulders,
their puniehment must have been a wholesome cor-
rective of their predatory and murderous habits. One
fellow struggled exceedingly to free himself from the
triangle, and another seemed to faint away, and bad to
be assisted to his cell. The governor and the surgeon
of the prison, in addition to several public officials,
were present during the flogging.

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starved, sad coveted With bites bestowed upon It by Its more
fortunate followa I regret to have to add that It was killed
immediately, so many valuable hounds having recently been
deetrot ad In that pack by inadneu that the huntsmeo woe
alrald to take It In. I rather 11th k that It was a black cock,
not a hawk, that Rob Roy boastml of hl. son being able to
Ming down with • single ball This oat has been surpassod
Icy the present Lord Hunting(leld, who haa the reputation of
blink the best shot In England. An eyewitnea. told me
that he saw him bring sown a brace of black cock which rose
together unexpectedly in a small cover, each with a s'ogle
ball from a double-barrelled dear-stalking rifle.—! am, fie.
A LoVER OF NATURAL HISToRT.

Ith rigpect to 3 our leading article upon Cord, -
pigeons, An. perhaps you way consider toe folio slog
anecdotes eutliciently Interesting for a place in your columns.
Same sears since a dog-fox was rim to ground on Withheld-
heath, near Milford. Kent. When dug out he wae found to
have some remarkable white spots about him, therefore the
Earl of Than& had him rent to his seat in Weetmoreland—
Appleby Castle—a distance of 300 miles, and turned down.
A fortnight et terward• the mune fox was killed near Heidi-
field—his native place. Not very long ago I raw a cow
bought at a lam suction About ell o'clock In the evening
she was sent ell home by the purchaser, and wae placed in
to the yard, a distance of fifteen miles train her former
home At eix o'clock the next morning she was found back
In her nld shed. quietly chewing the cud and waiting to be
usuaL

once ourcuased a brood of d neklings, about month old,
without the hen that hatched them. I took them home and
plied them, as I thought, safely In a plg.pound. to the
morning I Ilona they were all gone, and l diacoverel them
snugly huddl-d together at their old quarters, at the other
end of the village, to the nest In which they were hatched.
At shower told me he had met them in the street, homeward
bound, at four o'clock am., as he was going to work. They
had not been off the premium where they were bred before.
—I am, dm., L I. J.