Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-02-13
FLOG6NG.
How Punishment is Administered
in Winnipeg.
The Horrible Scene which Took Place In
Far Northern jail, and which so
Unmistakabiy Excited Popular
IndignasionI
Iwinnepeg Times.l

lWfnnepeg Times
The following is the description OF the
fogging of prisoner in the winnepeg Jail,
which led to the burning in efigy of Att
torney- General Miller and threats of
vengeance against him.
"This morning, about 12:4J 6'ciock,
scene took place In the Jail yard which
very seldom occrrs in Canada, 1t was the
fogging OF the prisoner Mccormack,
who yesterday escaped from the jail, in
which he was working, and was recap
tured. Last night he was shacklcd and
slowed away in the dark cell, and early
this morning the Attorney General issued
an order for the fiogSing. At the time
mentioned all the prisoners, twenty five in
number, were mustered IN the yard, the
guards standing over them armed with
rifles, and Mccormack was then brought
out. Up to this time he had no intimation
whatever of the intended punishment, and
at first was at loss to understand what
ceremony was about TO be performed. The
sight of the triangle in the corner of the
yard, however, speedily dispersed any
doubts that may have existed in his mind,
and he was noticed 70 tremble ali over
with fear. The Sheriff then called him by
name and proceeded to read the order is
sued by the Attorney General Cor his pun
ishment. The order directed that twelve
lashes be given him now and twelve more
one month before the expiration of his term
of imprisonment. This, however, is made
subject to his conduct during his stay in
jail. The prisoner listened TO the reading
of the document in dazcd manner, and
paid little attention to it. After the reading
was finished he simply said that he did not
understand the rules of the Jail. He was
then seized by two turnkeys and stripped
TO the waist, and bound to the triangle,
which stood in the southeast corner of the
yard. While the straps were being adjusted
he whined pitifully and pleaded for mercy.
A turnkey seized the cat, a barbarous ma
chine, with a handle about a foot long, to
which were attached a number of whip
cords with the ends knotted. After testing
it he stepped back and, suddenly swing
ing it around his head, it descended whist
ling through the air upon the back of the
unfortunate man, who literally beloved
under the influence of pain. my God, !"
he cried, do you mean to kill mes" and
Immediately after the lash descended a
second time, leaving long, red scars where
burned to black. The knots at the end of
the tails did wonderful execution, raising
hideous-looking blood-blistors. McCor-
mick was by this time writhing terribly
under the pain, and his contortions were
terrible. At the fifth lash the blood began
20 flow, and before the whole punishment
had been administered his back was one
mass Of laceratsd fesh, from which the
gore trickled in streams down his back.
During the last few strokes, which were
laid on severely, his agony was painful tc
witness. He kept crying; NY Godl My
Godv until released from the frame, wher
be tainted, but was soon brought to his
senses by an application OF snow He was
then placed in a cell and the wounds batiieo
In brine. He lay on the floor of the cell
sobbing like child. He was terribly ex.
hausted, and the opinion was expressed by
medical men that he could not have stood
much more.