Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-28
Fiogging Prisoners at Newgate
Prison.

ClOSe 10 MIN Il SlOuI1Sn, snort, gray
man, in what is known as Cardigan
jacket, and two warders ushered in the
first prisoner Bernard Regan, stout,
muscular young fellow, with IA low type
OF countenance, guilty of helping to In
velgle man up a court, where the poor
wretch was almost kicked to death,
robbed, and left with one eye hanging
out upon his cheek. 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 iii 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 a grotesque
initial I, his arms being stretched out to
their fullest extent, and passing through
the wood, whose padded holes closely CON
fine 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 whip, whoee halle
Is d COuplC VI ItSl IC!iSl N1OSG lllOnIS
-~1ine-afe OF stout whip-cord
'Lashr' There is a slight kissing
through the air, and the thongs fall with
dull pat upon the naked flesh from the
| right shoulder diagonally across the waist.
| The man winces slightly, but bears it
| without murmur. Lash! lashl lash!
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
suppressed "Ohn The skin now grows
furiously red, and the lines streaked across
ruin one into the other, till by the time twen-
ty lashes had been administered broad
scarlet band, like a heraldic bar sinister
marked the ruffian, who now uttered dull
''Ohl" half sigh, half groan, at every
blow-blows administered with the great
est coolhess 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 the
man was cast loose, the blood ready to
| start through the bruised skin; but not a
strand of the cat is stained, and the man
! is merely looking a little faint as 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 bovish-looking fel-
low. He stood smiling as he stripped off
| his shirt, evidently holding the prepara-
tions in contempt, but his thinner, fairer
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 he
seized in open daylight in busy street,
snatched the chain, and ran off, pursued
though, by a couple of witnesses of the
deed. These overlook and captured him,
but not until he had made desperate re-
sistance, using for weapon a stone
which he held in his hand 1t seems abb
| surdly, scandalously unjust that he should
be logged for such an offense while the
"cat never touches the back of such
scoundrels as that Bolton man, who late
ly set on a dog to tear the flesh
from his wife's arm. A minute ,suffced
for him to be secured in position, and
the tlogging Recommended The first
blow made the poor wretch vince terri
bly,, writhiRg as far as his well-secured
arms and legs would allow. Suppressed
exclamations escaped him as the blows
fell, and it 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-
toner, 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 fogging.
"Dont stop, please ~ Keep on,
please l'' 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
r of the breath of one in intense pain.
5 The effects were the same as in the last
the diagonal pink lines growing scarlet
e 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
e 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 "Stop" ant
5 the prisoner was cast loose, to walk quiet
: ly away from the post. There had beer
= 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
i. sharp lashing that tingled and burned tht
: skin to tremendous extent, no doubt
r There was nothing, in fact, more tina,
e what seemed to be wholesome punish
l ment. That it was deserved the accoun
| given of the misdeeds fully bears out
4 But this is no common performance. Th
: last was in May, 1870. Intended as pre-
a ventive punishment, it is well that its in
r fiction should be widely yknown.-Londol
e Echo.
A GOOD PLAIN PIE -CRUsT-A quart o
0 slfted flour, quarter of pound of lard
the same of butter, teaspoonful of salt
, reserve a little flour to use in rolling
D work the butter into the remainder Di:
y solve piece of sal volatile the size of
t large nutmeg in half tumbler of water
/ add this to the flour, using as much NOR
n cold water as is necessary to wet the doug
l. to proper consistence for handling; 70
!. the dough; spread half the lard upon it t
s within half an inch of the edge, turnin
J. up the edge to prevent the lard from 90;
d ing out. Sprinkle with flour; fold twic
a and roll. Repeat this process with th
remaining lard, and set in cool place fl
q half an hour Or more before using. Th
answers well for an under crust where pu
O paste is used for the upper.-Hedrh an
r Home.
The lady who presented Mr. Spu
.r.on with 100000 some time ago,
:, found an orphanage for boys, has, It
!, said, offered that gentleman another larg
. sum of money to found similar instit
n ton for girls.
L The latest London announcement is
nose machine, by which homely noses a
Z, pressed into the most fashionable shape
III appnrHJDp To tho ta of of ha