Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-10-28
THE LASH IN ENGLAND.

A london correspondent of the Dub
lin Freemen's Journal writing on date
September II, says: Two young men,
convicted of robbery with violence, had
to them this morning a
castigation which must forever have set
tied in the minds of those who witness
ed it the mooted question, whether cor
poral punishment acts as a deterrent to
crime. So far as the culp rits themselves
are concerned, it is more than probable
that they will never again run the risk
of being placed at the mercy of a couple |
of stout warders and nine-t tailed cat
and as to their. friends in crime, were
they to witness the manner in which
this punishment was borne BY the
most hardened of their fellow-ruf6- |
ans salutary effort would, mo doubt,
be placed upon their minds for some time
to come. Daniel Duffy, a young fellow
of eighteen years of age. was first placed
upon the grating to undergo that portion
of his sentence which must have been
harder to bear than the whole seven
years penal scrvitude which are to fol-
low:- Il
10 the uninitiated, twenty five lashes
do not appear a very severe sentence;
but when one witnesses the effect of each
stroke upon the back of man, the fear
full cries of agony wrung from him each
time the cat. welded by the practiced
arm of a powerful warder; comes whiz-
zing upon his shoulders it naturally oc-
ours to the mind that the matter ought
to be ventilated as freely as possible, in
order that garroters in general may be
made aware of the treat in store for
them within the walls of Newgate.-
Duffy, when brought into the room cast
nervous glance at the two warders,
with their sleeves stripped ready for ac-
ton, and without word submitted to
be fastened, hand and foot. At the
first stroke his courage failed, and from
that time until the whole twenty-five
lashes had been administered, he kept
up continuous scream of agony, oc-
casionally crying, "Have mercy, doctor
I'm being murdered p When released,
his back from his shoulders nearly to
his belt was one mass of livid flesh, and
he was unable to walk to his cell with
out assistance m asf ~s
The second victim was young fell
/ low twenty years of age, named John
Talbout, who, at Maidstone, on the 22d
of July, held laboring man by the
throat, while two other men robbed hin
of few half-pence etc. The sentence
in his case was thirty lashes and sever
years penal servitude. Talbout, a strong
er built man than Duffy, from the de
termined manner exhibited when brough
from his cell, believed that his courag
was sufficient to carry him through tn
ordeal, the nature of which he evidentl,
mistook. As the first stroke was lai,
on suppressed groan escaped him, &C
, companied by start of surprise, blu
, he drew himself upright, and threw hi
, shoulder blades back together to protec
his spine.
From the beginning to the end. how
ever, he never uttered word, althoug
his back was more severely lacerate
Z than Duffy's, the skin being broken i
several places, and, when released, h
declined the proffered assistance of tn
2 warders to dress, and walked from tn
5 room to his cell, assuming the same de
1 faint air with which he had entered, al
though it was evident from his uneas
+ motion and the discolored back, that tn
: punishment was such as will be remem
. bered to the end of his life. The sen
r tence was carried out In the presence 9
+ Sir John Bennett, the Sheriff, Mr. Beard
the under-sheriff, Mr. Gibson, the SUI
| geon, and representatives of the press
SoLD.-We have no doubt that th
active members of the New York Stat
Agricultural Society are full as shar
as their fellow beings, on an average
anywhere else, and yet they were so bad
ly sold at their annual fair, the othe
; day, that an allusion to the fact seem
almost cruel. [tappears that an ancier
farmer, residing in one of the most ez
cessively rural communities, back frol
the railroad. where innocence is suppose
to be the rule and wicke lness the exceI
iton, was moved to become an exhibitc
at the fair, and the Judges who examine
his entries of beans, peas, and apples
were astonished beyond measure at the
excellence He was awarded sever;
first prizes, amounting in the aggregat
) to $45. and was pressed by the commi
:. tee to prepare paper detailing the Pr
; culiar method of cultivation This b
promised faithfully to do After til
close of the fair and the payment of tn
premiums, while the. aged CINCINNATI
|. was engaged in reloading his "truck
:, for conveyance home, one of the barre
t Of first prize beans slipped and fell
the ground, bursting with the fall. VIII
can depict the horror of the committe,
Q several members of which were upon til
n spot. when it was found that beyond
d shallow top dressing of beans the barre
was filed with a very poor quality {
= SHIELDED corn Tho farn,ar loft baSti