The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-08-28
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A WHITE MAN FLOGGED!!
High-Handed Outrage at the Provost MarShafs
Office.
A Man Receives Fifty Lashes
on the Bare Back!!!
From the Pittsburg Chronicle, Republican paper
of August 4th.

Considerable talk was created in the city
yesterday by report of a high-handcd out
rage committed on the person Of man ma
med Joseph Hagen, at the Provost Marshafs
office, on Fourth street. From all we can
learn concerning the matter, it would appear
that Hagen enlisted some time ago in the
63rd regiment, and deserted. A few days
safscee, it is alleaed le offered himself as a
who was drafted, and after receiving his u
inform was sworn in and sent to camp. He
remained but short time in camp, and no
more was heard Of him until yesterday,
when, as is alleged, he presented himself at
the Provost Marshals Office as a substitute
for man who had just paid him $780,
This is the statement Of the clerks in the
office themselves, but whether it is correct
or not we cannot say. Hagen had passed
examination and was about being sworn in
the second time, when he was recognized,
whereupon orders were given to take him up
stairs and gjve him .ff1y 7ashes as punish
ment for his attempt to impose upon the
Board. Our informant does not state pre-
cisely from whom this order emanatcd, but
as Captain Foster was present, and either
gave it himself Or heard it given, he, of
course, must be held responsible
Hagen was now seized by the guard and
taken to the ''rendezvous" in the third sto-
ry, where preparations were at once made
for carrying the order into effect. The man,
as VIC are informed, was stripped naked,
gagged and handcufed. A raw cowhde
was produced, and soldier named George
Palmer, corporal Of the guard, under direc-
tons Of Deputy Provost Marshal McHenry,
who was present, Immediately proceeded to
lay on the stripes. Hagen, omparatively
powerless, though he was, resisted, and Nc
Henry, as is alleged, called on the soldiers
present to hold him while the stripes were
being laid on. This the latter refused to
do, whereupon, as the report goes, McHcn-
ry himself seized the wretched man, and
held him until the entire fifty lashes were
administered. Hagen struggled violently
in his agony, but before the sentence was
half carried out he fell PROSTATE on the floor,
and while in this condition the balance of
the lashes were administered him. His con-
dition when taken up was pitiable in the ex-
treme. His back was like piece of raw
beef, the cow-hide having cut through the
skin, and he was so exhausted that he could
not support himself. A gentleman who saw
him to-day, while the doctor was dressing
his wounds, states that he must have re-
ceivcd a most shocking Aogging, and that
had he not been a man of strong constitu-
ton he would have died under the inaiction.
An outrage SO high-handed as the above
has seldom been committed in any commu-
nifty, and it is due to the public that the
Government promptly repudiate the action
of its officers in the matter, by the dismis-
sal OF suspension from office Of all concern
ed. The conscription act, Heaven knows,
is unpopular enough without bringing it in
to the odium which high-handed acts of tyr
amy like the above are calculated to create,
and it behooves the Government, then to be