Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-06

me, unjust because by no means equal TO
broken knee cap and crushed ribs -
measure Of punishment. The surgeon Of the
Jail finding him suffering slightly from hron-
chitis, RENTED fifteen OF the lashes. barris-
ter who was present thus writes about the "put-
ting on" of those lashes. Never having seen a
man logged, and wishing TO Judge for myself of
the mode in which il was inflicted and borne. /
obtained permission TO be present on Monday
morning last When Cohen aud another man I'M
derwent the cat The instant Cohen was
brought into the stone room to be tied up he
whined just as l had heard him in court; and,
sitting down on a form, he performed a very
awkward make-believe of fainting. | don't sup
pose Mr.. Cohen had inquired whether his victim
An elderly man-had heart disease or bron-
chitis before he knocked him down and helped
10 kick him in themOuth and kneecap but DIR.
Gloson, whom on this occasion | met for the
hrst time, had determined that, because Cohen
had bronchial affection, he should receive
only fifteen instead OF thirty strokes. 1t was
the opinion of every one who witnessed the
Jogging, including young medical friend by
whom was accompanied, that Cohen could
have well borne the thirty strokes. sIle walked
out of the room after his fifteen without, to all
appearance, having suffered much"
The doctor having, one might almost saw from
an excess OF consderaton-but here 1 think he
did rigbtly-remitted part Of the punishment,
down comes a member OF parliament, Mr.. Peter
Taylor, and in the strongest spirit of indigna-
ton writes to the paper about the brutalizing
nature of this punishment. Because, in fact
the fogeing hurt Cohen, Mr.. Taylor holds it 10
be brutal, forgetting that Mr.. Cohen is worse
than brute on two legs, and displays endless
rhetorical tenderness for a ruffiau who, brave
enough TO kick his helpless victim in the face
was yet not brave enough TO take his punish
ment as hundreds of men have taken it before
without fiinching, without moving a muscle,
without uttering cry. have known man
on board man-ot-waT IN the old days to have
been ''cobbed" down below infinitely harder
than the lashes were laid on if he did utter a
cry. You must treat brutes like brutes, that's
all about it. The other day, in fact at the last
sessions Of the criminal court, a mis5reant was
tried for one of the most atrocious assaults ever
committed on any human being. His victim
was a poor woman with whom he had cOhabit-
ed, and who was enciente at the time of the as
sault. The details Of this case are too dreadful
for publication in the columns of any newspa-
per; they make the blood run cold in the veins
of every man who heard them. For some time
after the inhictiOn of the injuries, the surgeons
did not think it possible the woman could live.
But she did; and, when she came into court,
endeavOred to screen the wretch who had acted
towards her as no brute beast would have done.
The jury had the good sense to convict him (;
| and, in sentencing HIM to ten years penal SER
| yitude, the judge, with the appreciation of every
| one present. said the prisoner was savage on
whom words would be wasted, but untOrtu-
| nately could not orderhim to be fogged, because
| he had tortured his victim within doors. Itwas
| not highway robbery with violence, but ! wish
/ il had been that the villain might have got his
| due The fact is, it is our duty to put down
| and trample out crimes by any means that
| happen to lie ready to our hands. Ii garroters
fear the "ca" and not the law, give them plenty
Of the former, and teach them to obey the latter.
1t is noteworthy fact that these brutes will
take their five years penal servitude jauntily-
make fun Of it, but when the sentence goes on
n no HnTupl nd ca or