The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-10-16
PURITAN PUNISHMENTS.
Tae strange aud Curious Method. Of Cor
recting Criminals in Olden Times.

Tae strange aud Curious Method. OF Cor
recting Criminals in Olden Times.
GticdgO inter- OccGn.
The idea of the "Mikado,' to make
the punishment tit the crime as means
to innocent merrmeut. cert ainly entered
into the law making of early Boston,
Salem and ideal Virginia What else
can be thought when We learn that in
1884 Virginia woman, who by the VIC
lence of her tongue had IN .de her home
and neighborhood uncomfortable was
set in the ducking school and ducked
five times before she repented. She the n
cried piteously Let me go, Let me go.
BY Gods help I'll sin no more"' Where
upon the correctors drew back the ma
home in her wetted clothes, a hopefully
penltent woman Those old fellow S
were very severe with scolding women,
and were vigorous enou IN in the ende"v
ors to enforce the policy OF Paul. They
we're not prejudiced by her sex in their
distribution OF saving era Sc, however. a
qniet nap was sometimes as much t" tie
reprehended AS a clscking tongue, and
''iu 1913 Roger Scott, from rrpeatt
sleeping in meeting on the Lord day,
and for striking the person who WAKE
him, was, at Salem, sentenced To be St
verely whipped"
They had d fashion. too, of making a
thief pay thrice the value Of the go"ds
stolen III addition To being roundly pun
ished by other means. Francis Brown,
being convicted sec mi tine for steal
ing goods, was sentenced to sit on the
gallows an hour with ID rope about his
neck, to be whipped thirty stripes and
paw treble damages. H, SAYS lie was
born in Lisbon, and has been IA great
thief" If 1t CHANGED To be il neg" who
did the stealing the punishment was cap
ital. Forgery was IA crime punishable
with de ,uh, and III lI9l ) lmu i Go * Was
executed tor that crime, thougn lie was
then 81 years OF aye. Mary, vile OF
Thomas OIver, OF ) .ieIu. had rather a
strong sympathy with Women rIgn's III
her nature, and gave IA great de ii ri tr' Il
ole TO the utIi Gals, 50 I'll II she wd- puU-
licly whipped lor ''repr"acAInS the Mag
istrate-, aud tor ''slanderlng the elders
had cleft stick pun on her tongue for
Ii .lf All hour.
IL nowhere appears that she was effect
ually subdued, though she lett the coloi
after some years OF futile al IN the fui'
therance of her views. Her attitude pcs
sibly had more influence toward tie
framing Of late lawswhereby II WAS or
dered that "scolds and railers shall te
gagged OF Set on ducking stool aud dip
ped over head aud ears three times. y
This too free expression of opinion was
not encouraged i'll any one. Thos. Maule
was whipped "foI saying that MIR. HlS
ginson preached lies, aud that his III
structiou Was the doctriue of devils.
And for making hard speeches asIalns1
Sdlem SuurCu, DIS we'll DIS oho ''>oi u
ment." Phillip Ratclitf WAS sentenced IL
pay $40, to be whipped, to have his ears
cropped, aud to be banished. Wha
would some of the Chicago Anarchists
say TO this punishment of their ''hard
speeches p
The dandy Jared poorly in that time
4 4. - H.,
lily fined for excess of apparel in boots
rlbbands, gould aud silver lace her
Thomas kendry broke into the store OF
Israel Bartlett and stole suudry g"ois he
little thought he would be required tt
pay the said B. rtlett t3}3 SO, 10 siI OF
the gallows one hour with rope about
his neck, to be whipped thirty stripes
aud to he curtined 10 hard labor on Cast IL
Island two years. bnt such was his tate
SION were Z .alnu>lv applied /" ever! de
gree of crime. mIS'i'meau II ~ "Ifcn>r,
there was considerable complaint III III,
press of tn. times that The III ME "i pun
ishment had lIt,l. Iitlu-n"e III lettering
others from the commission OF the SAM
crimes, aud one writer very enthusiast
cally called atUeuti II To the evident ,aiu'
OF the new law q. imprisonment at Labor.
the idea OF which is "mlcn more dread
full TO suc;, viii ms than hat Of corporal
punishment" 1t may be. after all that
the modern sA stein Is quite as Ell CIV,
as ANY that eau 10. easily devised. pro
vlued it be entorc, d.