Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
How They Treat Robbers In England.


A London correspondent of the Dub
lin Freeman'S Journal wife:
Two young men, convicted of robbery
with violence, had administered to them
this morning a castigation which must
forever have settled in the minds Of
those who Witnessed it the moot ques
ton, whether corporal fundamentally
acts as a deterrent to crime. So far as the
culprits 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 q ninet.iled cat and as to their
friends in crime, were they to witness
the manner in which the punishm ent
is borne by the most hardened of their
rutfians, salutary effect would,
| no doubt, be produced upon their minds
| for some time to come.
| Daniel Duffy, a young fellow of eight
| cen years OF age, was first placed on
the grating to undergo that portion of
| his sentence which must have been
| harder to bear than the whole seven
years penal servitude which are to fol
| low. To the uninitiated, twenty five
lashes do not appear very severe SEN
tence; but when one witnesses the
effect of each stroke upon the back of a
man, the fearful cries of agony wrung
from him each time the cat. welded by
the practiced arm of a powerful warder
comes whizzlng upon his shoulders, 1t
naturally occurs to the mind that the
matter ought to be ventilated as freely
as possible, in order that the 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 a nervous glance at
the two warders, with their sleeves
stripped up ready for action, and with
out word, submitted to be fastened
hand AID foot.
At the first stroke his courage failed
and, from that time, until the whole
twenty-five lashes had been admins
tered, he kept up continuous stream
of agony, occasionally crying, "Have
mercy. doctor, Pm being murdered.
When released, his back, from the
shoulders nearly to his belt, was one
mass of liyid flesh, and he was unable tc
walk to his cell without assistance. The
second victim was young fellow nearly
twenty years of age, named John Tai
|
July, held a laboring man, named
Pritchard, by the throat while two other
men robbed him of few halfpence, etc
| The sentence in his case was thirty
lashes and seven years penal servitude
Talbout, a stronger built man than
Duffy, from the determined manner
exhibited when brought from his cell,
believed that his courage was sufficient
to carry him through the ordeal, the
nature of which he evidently mistook.
AS the first stroke was laid on a sup.
pressed groan escaped him, accompa
MED by start of surprise, but he drew
himself upright, and threw his shoulder
blades back together to protect his
spine. From the beginning to the end
however, he never uttered word, al,
though his back was more severely
lacerated than Dufy's, the skin being
broken in sveral places, and, when re.
leased, he declined the protfered assist.
ance of the warders to dress, and qui
city walked from the room to his cell
assuming the same defiant air with
which he had entered, although it was
evident, from his uneasy motion and
the discolored back, that the punish
ment was such as will be remembered tc
the end of his life. The sen fences
were carried out in the presence OF Sill
John Bennett, the sheriff, Mr.. Beard
the under sheriff. Mr.. Gibson, the sur
geon, and representatives of the press