Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-28
The Whipping-POst.
A 1O-Yenr-Old Boy LnsheI.

There was whipping exhibition at New
Castle, Del, on Saturday, which must have
been unusually interesting judging from
the crowd it attracted. There were
four culrrits-one of whom was a
brawny outlaw of 81, and another
STRIPPING of 10 years of age-on
the docket, who were to receive an aggre-
gate penalty of ninety lashes with the cato.
nine tails. A number of spectators came
from Philadelphia to see notorious charac-
ter named Gutherie logged. The pillofy
and whipping pest are within the jail yard,
which is enclosed by massive wall thirty
feet high On exhibition days the double
gate is thrown wide open, SO that anyone
passing the prison cannot fail to see the &C.
cupants of the pillory. By 10 o'clock yes
terday the yard was crowded bya motley
crowd of men, women and children of al
shades and conditions.
Shortly after the clock struck 10 William
G. Gutherie and John Manlove were led
from the prison to the pillory. Manlove is
a negro, Is years old, convicted of bur
glary and petty thieving at Wilmington,
and was sentenced to one hour in the pill
lory, twenty lashes and six months i'm
prisonment. Dirty and ragged, he lazily
swung himself up the ladder on to the
pillory platform, grinning at the crowd as
he did SO. The other prisoner, Gutherie,
was convicted in the present term of court
of an assault upon young girl, Anna Davi-
son, five months ago. The crime was COM
mitted under peculiarly atrocious eircum-
stances, and Gutherie, who was a prosper
Gus contractor at Wilmington, offered the
child's mother various sums of money, final
ly agreeing upon $500 as the price of secre-
cy. The little girls illness -transpired. how
ever, and band of workingnren, which soon
swelled to a mob, started in pursuit
OF Gutherie, who barely escaped: from
Wilmington with his life. About two
months later he was found in Chicago under
an assumed name. His trial resulted In a
sentence of thirty 1ashes after standing an
hour N the pillory, and five years impris-
onment in the penitentiary. Gutherie fell
into nonchalant position, with his head
and arms thrust through the pillory, and
critically surveyed the crowd. Negro
women carrying babies in their arms, bare
footed urchins, men of every degree and con-
dition, moved in a restless procession about
the pillory All of the prison windows COM
handing view of the scene were filed with
the bright spring bonnets of women.
At IL o'clock the deputy sheriff unlocked
the stocks, and the prisoners were taken to
their cells to undress. In the meantime two
negro gamins, more ragged and diminutiye
than the first, were brought out and, by
means of soap-boxes for footstools, were
hung up In place of the others. Gutherie re-
appeared with light coat thrown over his
brawny shoulders. His hands were pin
toned to the post above his head. Sheriff
Clark suddenly emerged from the crowd, cat
in hand, and the lashes descended with a
thwack on the naked back of the prisoner,
leaving broad wake of red stripes.
Cone" cried the deputy sheriff with i'm
passive face. The blows continued till the
tenth stroke left spot of blood where it
fell The crowd, forming complete circle
about the pillory, looked on with faces as
express.onless and immovable as group of
wax effigies. At the twentieth blow pause