Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-16
FLoGGING Ar NEWGATE.
Men Lashed Severely sufth Tire Cat, and
Boys ,cith the Birch.
London telegraph

Boys ,Cith the Birch.
London Telegraph.
Five young men, who were sentenced at
the last session of the central criminal court
to be logged for acts of robbery with vio-
lence, underwent the penalty in Newgate
jail, on the morning of March 81, at half
past 9 O'Clock. One of them being q mere
boy of 16, received twenty strokes with the
birch instead of the cat. His name was Tim
othy Donovan, and his offence was being
concerned with Edward Callahan, aged Is,
in robbing woman, whom they brutal
~ kicked. These youths were the first to
take their punishment, which was inflicted
IN the room appointed for such correction,
and fitted with the usual apparatus for whip
ping. There were present Alderman Sir
William Rose, as visiting magistrate; Alder
m and Sheriff Hadley, the governor of the
prison (Mr. Sidney Smith), the Jail surgeon
(Mr. Gibson), with whom was DR.. Key
Hardey, and a few representatives Of the
newspaper press. The convicts were brought
in one at time, the name of each and the
number of lashes he was to receive being
called out by the governor.
First came the boy Donavan, who sub
mitted quietly to the process of being strip
ped and fastened to the whipping post. Two
warders administered each ten strokes of the
birch, and the lad screamed and cried loudly
for mercy while receiving his castigition,
which was vigorously laid on, and left heavy
marks of its severity. His elder companion,
Callahan, began Ito howl most dismally.
even before his coat was removed and showed
himself from first to last an arrant coward.
His twenty strokes were laid on by the two
warders, each delivering ten, with new stiff
whipcord, with the prescribed number of
Knots. The back of this convict bore evil
dences of the rigor with which the warders,
two tall and powerful men, discharged their
luty. AS matter of course, the prisoner.
who had shown craven fear by his conduct
On being led into the room, doubled and
lrebled his yells when the blows began to
rain across his back aud shoulders.
The next batch, who were to suffer for a
more violent outrage, had been sentenced to
receive each twenty-five lashes with the cat.
They were: Henry West, aged 10, a licensed
peddler; Thomas Hennessey, II, and Will
liam Sawyer, 20, both described as laborers.
All three belonged to Wandsworth, in which
neighborhood, last November, their crime
was committed. In conjunction with a
fourth man, named Joseph Webb, who has
been sentenced to seven years penal servi-
tude without fogeing, they attacked an
elderly gentleman, Mr.. David Arnott of
Grove House, Allfarthing lane, as he
was returning home at 8 o'clock
in the evening from temper
ance meeting in South street. The first
cautious preliminary of the ruffians was to
take away their victims umbrella, thus de-
priving him of a handy weapon of defence.
They then proceeded to throw him down,
and to rob him of 50 los. in gold, his keys,
purse, and penknife, with a few postage
stamps; and, as he persisted in calling for
help, they kicked him about the head, caus-
ing eight wounds. For this savage robbery
they were all sentenced by Sir Thomas
Chambers, G. c., M. p, the new recorder,
70 penal servitude: and, as the three prison
ers, West, Hennessey, and Sawyer, had been
previously convicted, the additional judg-
nent of fogging was pronounced on
Ihem.
West was first brought into the room, and
lis defiant look and insolent demeanor
plainly bespoke determination to go
through the ordeal with as much stolidity as
le could assume. It was not till the third
lash descended that he cried ont, and there
after his yells were loud and piercing, So
licitation for five minutes respite being i'm
ploringly uttered by him when the first
warder had finished giving the thirteen lashes
and the second was stepping forward to de.
liver the other twelve. The appeal was un-
needed, and West continued to howl and
roar for mercy till the end of his punish
ment; but Immediately on being released
from the confinement of the whipping stocks
he danced the ''double shufae'' as in fulfil
ment of his miserable programme of bravado.
It is noticeable that this convict had evident
ly tried his utmost to bear the lash with
stabborn silence, and that his yells of pain
we're perforce wrung from him.
Hennessey, the next man, cried at the first
cut, called for the doctor at the sixth, and
then, Stimulating faintness, dropped his head
on one side; but looked up briskly when the
second warder came toward him to delive,
the twelve concluding strokes. When the
full measure of Henhessey's punishment had
been administered, he gave gasp or sign OF
! relief, and was led out moaning. The last
man was Sawyer, who repeatedly shouted
out that he was being killed, and whose fog.
ging left him in state of more decided bel o.
lessness and depression than either of the
others had betrayed. In all cases, the dis.
coloration of the skin was very great, and
blood followed thu course of the lash. A
period of not more than twenty minutes was
occupied in Jogging all five prisoners.