River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-16
the British Hhippfng-Post.
[Cincinnati Commercial

Il lCIncinnati Commencai
TheAnarked increase of brutality of all
sorts iii this country in the last ten years IL
a matter of frequent mention. The same
thing kas been observed in England, and be-
came so serious a matter that a desperate
remedg was necessary TO repress it. Eminent
philanfhropists, araong them Baroness Bur
dett~C sutts herself, finally advised return
to the ;whipping- post. The merciful way of
dealini, with crime hSd no effect on down
right tsrutality, except to increase IT. The
only gsy to reach ii seemed to be to make It
feel, even through its ttick-skinned de
gradas9n, the kina Of pain 1t was so fond
of MAJ. ng others suffer. At length, after
proper discussions and consultation, the
whipraag-post was actually revived for gar
rotinq, wife beating, and kicking, and some
other brutal otfenses. History really does re-
peat iiaelf at intervals.
The new punishment seems to have a most
salutaag effect, SO Jar as il has been tired. IL
canncs be said to be brutalizing in its nature
to thasse who seem already SO brutalized that
no ot6er punishment has any effect on them.
Those on whom il has been tried invariably
manifest wholesome horror of it the second
time. 4 Some weeks ago five convicts from
16 To 70 years Of age received the iiogging to
which, they had been sentenced, all the same
day, 81 one of the London police stations.
Floggkng is said a. be a punishment which
the Va est hardened nerves cannot endure
without finchiDR. However much bravado
the cQnvict displays at the beginning, few
strok$ IF the cate nine-tails invariably take
the siSfch out of him, 80 TO speak, and leave
him lsap and bowling. 1t is certainly des-
perate, remedy. but desperate cases of bru-
Al. ~. .n ,..c,,r,-; 80, avayu
Tws, Of the convicts who received the pun
ishmg,t in Londcn were boys of 16 and 10.
They saad robbed woman, knocked her
down. and then kicked her, and were TO re-
ceive y hogging as part of their sentence, the
Younger boy twenty strokes with birch rod,
the osher the sans number of blows with a
cato kline-tails, On the bare back. The
prisol srs' legs were fastened in a sort Of
blaektisox, while their arms were pilloried at
the wltst. The governor Of the prison, the
sherib and the jeil physician were present,
attenda&ce Of a number Of other
officigls added ianpressiyeness to the scene.
The punishment was inflicted by two robust
prisos wardens, who relieved each other in
regulss turn. The 16-year-old boy was
whipped first. ITe began to whimper az
sight hi the rods, and each stroke was at
iendg1 with hotFl and an entreaty Of "Oh,
ion'tg drl'' The second convict was an
,verpAown bully, who looked bold enough TO
snduF& anything. but he, too, began to
Vhi1naser before be had been struck. The
hird lad evidently made up his mind TO
Dear Il gamely, and utter no cry, but at the
'ouTtli blow Of the cat he broke down and
,elloysd like cat. Yells and cries for
nercb rent the air during the whipping Of
he Whole five, and at the end of the punish
nentssach was lex. away trembling, pale, and
1reatsaless. IL was not am agreeable scene,
1ut teen neither Nas garToting gentleman
obj ~ him, ku9eking him down, and kick
ng hasn in the head till he was nearly killed
the crime for which the last three of the
I've WIRE fogged,-an agreeable scene.