Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29
Flogging Prisoners at Newgate
Prison.

Jacket, and two warders ushcred in the
first prisoner, Bernard Regan, stout,
muscular young fellow, with a low type
of countenance, guilty of helping to in
veigle man up court, where the poor
wretch was almost kicked to death,
robbed, and left with one eve hanging
out upon his check Bernard Regan is
TO receive thirty lashes, seven years penal
servitude and seven years police super
vision. The warders assist him to pre-.
pare. There is good deal of the wild
beast about his aspect, but he takes all
very coolly, and in a few seconds the
cross arms of the stocks have been opened
and closed upon his wrists, and the box
like lower part has gaped and admitted
him: An ugly affair this whipping-post-
stocks, or whatever it may be termed
and the culprit presented an appearance
reminding one something of grotesque
initial T, his arms being stretched out to
their fullest extent and passing through
the wood, whose padded holes closely con.
fne the wrists The lower boX-like por-
ton, too, is peculiar, reaching, as it does,
waist high, and, when closed, completely
shutting from sight the lower portion of
the mans body Now Calcraft steps for
ward, armed with a whip, whose hadle
is couple of feet long, and whose thongs
-nine-are of stout whip-cord.
Lash" There Is a slight kissing
through the air, and the thongs fall with
a dull pat upon the naked flesh from the
right shoulder diagonally across the waist
The man winces slightly, but bears it
without a murmur. Lashl lash! lashl
slowly and regularly, and after the first
three or four thin red lines streak the
prisoners back, but no blood. The lashes
fall on slowly and regularly, but no cry
escapes the man until the twelfth, when
he begins to writhe little and utters a
suppressed "Oh!" The skin now grows
furiously red, and the lines streaked across
run one into the other, till by the time TWEEN
ty lashes had been administered broad
scarlet band, like heraldic bar sinister,
marked the ruffian, who now uttered dull
OH" half sigh, half groan, at every
blow-blows administered with the great
est Coolness by Calcraft.
"Flog fairly exclaimed the prisoner
at last, evidently asking for distribution
of the lashes over wider surface; but
they fell in the same line regularly and
methodically to the thirtieth, when tho
man was cast loose, the blood ready to
start through the bruised skim but not
strand of the cat is stained, and the man
is merely looking little faint us he walk
ed back to his cell. The time of execu-
tiOn was but one minute and twenty sec
onds.
Samuel Lilly was the second offender
upon whom sentence was to be carried
out; ayOunger, more boyish-looking fcl-
low. He stood smiling as he stripped ofr
his shirt, evidently holding the prepara-
tions in contempt, but his thinner, faircr
skin threatened to give place to more suf
fering, as it proved His punishment
was to be but twenty-five lashes for rob
berry with violence, and the same term of
Imprisonment and supervision awarded to
his fellow. The crime was robbery from
the person, one of those street attacks up
on defenseless woman, whose watch lie
seized in open daylight in a busy street,
snatched the chain, and ran off, pursued
though, by couple of witnesses of the
decd. These overlook and captured him,
but not until he had made desperate re-
sistance, using for weapon stone
which he held in his hand. 1t seems abb
surdly, scandalously unjust that he should
be flogged for such an otiense while the
"cat never touches the back of such
scoundrels rs that Bolton man, who late
ly set on a dog to tear the flesh
from his wife's arm. A minute sufficed
for him TO he secured in position, and
the logging recommended. The first
blow made the poor wretch vince terri
bly,, writhiRg as far as his well secured
arms and legs would allow. Suppressed
eXciamations escaped him as the blows
fell, and il seemed as if, invOluntarily,
the quivering muscles crept closer to the
stocks, so as to place few more inches
distance between them and the eXecu-
tioner, the man curving his back inward
and twisting so as to hinder the strokes
of Calcraft, who stopped and drew the
lashes through his left hand from time to
time, disentangling them, and waiting
till the man had resumed his upright atti-
tude before he continued the flogging.
Don't stop, please ~ Keep on,
please +" the prisoner exclaimed, as the
halts were made, and then another and
another blow fell, Calcraft cody telling
the wincing culprit to hold still, or he
would only hurt himself all the more.
Don't stop, please; hit Farther up,
please" were the next appeals, and at last
in his agony the man laid his head down
upon one arm with a gasping utter
ance-that peculiar sibilant drawing in
of the breath of one in intense pain.
The effects were the same as in the last /;
the diagonal pink lines growing scarlet,
and running into one another till there
was broad scarlet band, which quivered
and flushed and changed color. But there
was no blood; and when the cat was af-
terward examined, it was not even moist
ened, every knotted thong remaining dry
and crisp as when brought out for use
Twenty-four twenty-five lashes fell,
and then loud voice cried "Stopm and
the prisoner was cast loose, to walk quiet
ly away from the post. There had been
no shrieks or loud groans-nothing to in
dicate that the punishment was very ter
rible. No appearance of fainting, moth
ing more than might be expected from a
sharp lashng that tingled and burned the
skin to tremendous extent, no doubt.
There was nothing, in fact, more than
what seemed to be wholesome punish
ment That it was deserved the account
given of the misdecds fully bears out.
But this is no common performance The
last was in May, 1870. Intended as pre-
ventive punishment, it is well that its in
Fiction should be widely known. .-LOHdOR
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sifted flour quarter Of a pound of lard,
the same of butter, teaspoonful of salt,
reserve little flour to use in rolling;
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