St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-17
Punishments in oiden Times.

Punishments in Oiden Times.
In 1857 Dorothy Talby, for beating
her husband, was ordered bound and
hained to post.
In the last half of the Eighteenth
century it appears to have been a capi-
tai crime for negroes to steal.
In 1888 the assistants of Salem, Mass.
ordered two men to sit in stocks on
lecture day for travelling on the Sab
bath.
Mr.. Southwiek, for returning after
having been banished, was whipped
through the towns of Boston, Roxbury
and Dedham.
On May 3, 1869. Thomas Mule was
whipped for saying that one Higginson
preached lies, and that his instruction
was the doctrine of devils.
At Springfield, Mass, in Oct. 1857,
one Elnathan Muggin was found guilty
OF passing counterfeit money and was
sentenced to have his ears cropped.
John Gray, of Cordwainer, who en-
sentenced to three months imprison-
ment and to pay fine of e6 and costs.
In 1862, Jeremiah Dexter, of Walpole,
pursuant to sentence, stood in the pill
iory OF that town for tH o hours for ''ut-
tering" two counterfeit milled dollars.
Andrew Cayto received fOrty-nine
stripes at the public whipping post in
Boston for house rObbing; thirty-nine
for robbing one house and ten for rob-
bing another.
On December 6, 1857, William Clark
was executed at Northampton for burg
larry. The same day Charles Rose and
Jonathan BLY, were executed at Lennox
for robbery.
Josiah SOuthwick, Mrs. Wilon, Mrs.
Buffum, and other quakers, for making
disturbances in meeting houses, were
whipped at the carts tail through the
town of Salem.
The Boston Chronicle of Nov. 20. 1859,
narrates the fact that one Lindsay was
branded with a hot iron for forgery.
The officers put letter ''F'' on the
palm of his hand.
In New York during the month of
January, 1861, Joseph Bennett, John
Jenkins, Owen Mccarthy, and John
Wright were publicly whipped at the
carts tail for petty larceny.
In 1857 negro wench was executed
by hanging for stealing sundry articles
out OF the house of Mr.. Forbes, and one
John Douglass was burned with letter
''S' for stealing copper kettle.
AT a session of court held at Norris
town, Pa, Oct. IL, 17S6, Philip Hoesna-
gle was found guilty of burglary, and
it was with great difficulty that he was
prevailed upon to accept hard labor
instead of hanging.
On March IL, IT'S, one Mecum, of
Newport, r. l., was executed for murder,
and his body was hung in chains on
MlantOnamy hill, where the remains of
an Indian were then hanging, who had
been executed Sept. IL, 1T12.
In 1649 women were prosecuted for
scOidlng, and in May, 1862, the general
court of Massachusetts ordered that the
''scolds and raiders should be gagged
or set in ducking stool and dipped
over head and ears three times"
At Ipswich, Mass, June 16, 1853,
Francis Brown, for stealing a large
quantity of goods, was found guilty on
second trial, and was sentenced to sit
on the gallows an hour with rope
around his neck, to be whipped thirty
stripes, and pay treble damages.
In Boston, in 1762, the then noted DR..
Seth Hudson and Joshua Howe stood
a second time in the pill0ry for the space
of one hour, and the former received
twenty and the latter thirty-nine stripes
for stealing, and were compelled to pay
triple damages (e3O and costs.
Ia 1644, Mary, wife of Thomas Oliver,
was sentenced to be publicly whipped
for reproaching the magistrates; in 1916
she slandered the elders and was SEN
fenced to have cleft stick put on her
tongue for half an hour. She finally, in
1850, left the colony, after having caused
much trouble in the church and to the
authorities.
In 17SS, at the supreme judicial court,
held at Salem, Mass, James Ray,
thief lauohed ont at tho iudua whom h q
was sentenced to sit on the gallows
with rope about his neck for an hour,
and to be whipped with thirty-nine
stripes. The judge had not finished his
sentence when he was interrupted by
Rays contempt. He concluded with the
sentence of three years to Castle island
Boston harbor), when Ray grew pale,
his head dropped on his breast, and he
said he would rather die than work.