The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-25
Flogging In Newgate.

nal Court to be fiogged for acts of rob-
berry with violence, underwent the PEN
atty in Newgate Jail, on the morning
of March 81, at half-past nine o'clock.
One of them, being a mere boy of six
teen, received twenty strokes with the
birch instead of the cat. His name
was Timothy Donovan, and his offense
was being concerned with Edward Cal
lahan, aged eighteen, in robbing a
woman, whom they brutally kicked.
These youths were the first to take
their punishment, which was inflicted
in the room appointed for such correc-
ton, and fitted with the usual appa-
ratus for whipping. The c~onvicts were
brought in one at a time, the name of
each and the number of lashes he was
to receive being called out by the Gov
ernor.
First came the boy Donovan, who
submitted quietly to the process of be-
ing stripped and fastened to the whip
ping-post. Two warders administered
each ten strokes Of the birch, and the
lad screamed and cried loudly for mer-
cy while receiving his castigation,
which was vigorously laid on, and left
heavy marks of its severity. His elder
companion, Callahan, began to howl
mostdismally, 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 q
new stiff ~whipcord, with the prescribed
number of knots. The back of this
convict bore evidences of the rigor
with which the warders, two tall and
powerful men, discharged their duty.
As a matter of course, the prisoner,
who had shown craven fear by his con-
duct on being led into the room,
doubled and trebled his yells when the
blows began to rain across his back and
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 nineteen, a licensed
peddler; Thomas Hennessey, seventeen,
and William Sawyer, twenty, both de.
scribed as laborers. All three belonged
to Wandsworth, in which neighborhood
last November, their crime was com
mitted. In conjunction with o fourth
man, named Joseph Webb, who has
been sentenced TO seven years
penal servitude without a flogging,
they attacked an elderly gentleman,
MI. David Arnott, of Grove HOUSE,
Allfarthing lane, as he was returning
home at nine o'clock in the evening
from a temperance meeting in South
street. The first cautious preliminary
of the r%uffians was t. take away their
victims umbrella, thus depriving him
of a handy weapon of defense. They
then proceeded to throw him down,
and to rob him of e. 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, causing eight wounds.
For this savage robbery they were all
sentenced by Sir Thomas Chambers,
@. c., M. p, the new Recorder, to
penal servitude; and, az the three pris-
oners, West, Hennessey and Sawyer,
had been previously convicted, the adj
ditional judgment of a flogging was
pronounced on them.
West was first brought into the room,
anu ITO uCAduU lOOh duu AAloO1CAU W.
meanor plainly bespoke determine
ton to go through the ordeal with as
much stolidity as he could assume. 1t
was not till the third lash descended
that he cried out, and thereafter his
yells were loud and piercing, a solicit
tation for five minutes respite being
imploringly uttered by him when the
first warder had finished giving the
thirteen lashes, and the second was
stepping forward to deliver the other
twelve. The appeal was u~nheeded.
and West continued to howl and roar
for mercy till the end of his punish
ment; but Immediately on being re-
leased from the confinement of the
whipping-stocks he danced the ..double-
shufie," as in fultillment of his misera-
bic programme of bravado. 1t is
noticeable that this convict had EVIL
IDENTIFY tried his utmost to bear the lash
with stubborn silence, and that his
yells of pain were perforce wrung from
him.
Hennessey, the next man, cried at
the first cut, called for the doctor at
the sixth, and then, Stimulating faint
ness, dropped his head on n side;
but looked up briskly when the second
warder came toward him to deliver the
twelve concluding strokes. When the
full measure of Hennessey's punish
mcnt had been administered, he gave a
gasp or sigh of relief, and was led out
moaning. The last man was Sawyer,
who repeatedly shouted out that he was
being killed. and whose flogging left