Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-04
OlD-TlME puNlsra...s.
Days when Law. Were ~
Thay A. N NfHeI =.

EVl-s-
i"ey Are To-day.
In 1887 Dorothy Talhv
her husband, was ordered i, &, ests
chains< to post. o'und u
In the last half OF the a,.h.
tury 1t appears TO have besa sp'A y
crime for negroes to steal eap1
In 1888 the assistants
Mass. ordered two men h !. - Sls
on lecture day for travelling !. y !. VOC
bath. ~ we Nj
Mr. So'ithwick. for retr..,
having been banished, was <. -
through the towns Of Boston ! nalpps
and Dedham. Aort9
On May 3. 1869. rhoma. ~,
whipped for saying that ona H ~ y
preached lies. and that his iaa sslaA
was the doctrine of devils
At Springfield. Mass h
1867, one Elnathan Mugpin y. vasa
guilty of passing counterts, = 'a'
and was sentenced to have 4,
cropped. NY
John Gray, Of Cordwainer WI.
deavored TO spread the small.n
sentenced to three months Lnnr;s. =
and to pay IA fine OF six poDna
costs.
In 1862 Jeremiah Dexter. o,w.,,
pursuant to sentence, stood in ~
Tory of that town for two ho,
''uttering' two counterfeit mi,,sa
| lars.
Andrew Cayto received fo,..
stripes at the public whippino n,-
isoston for house-robbine; tbirrs
for robbing one house and ten h, n
Ding another.
On December 6, 1857, William f,,.|
vas executed at Northampton for l..
larry. The same day Charles Ross v
Jonathan Bly, were executed al la,,-
for robbery.
Josiah Southwick, Mrs. vilon n.
Butfum, and other quakers, for mali.
disturbances in meeting houses ~
whipped at the carts tail through I,
town OF Salem.
The Boston Chronicle, OF Noyena.
20, 1863, narrates the fact that 4.
Lindsay was branded with hot In, /.
'orgery. The officers put letter i
IN the palm of his hand.
In New York during the nOr,ha
January. 1861, Joseph Bennett. N
Jenkins, Owen Mccarthy and ii,
Wright were publicly whipped At i,
arts tail for petty larceny.
III 1867 negro wench was exert.
~ hanging for stealing sundry arti,
nut of the house Of Mr. Forbes; and 4,
iohn Douglass was burned with a In
s. for stealing copper kettle
At a session of court held at Non,
} own, Pa, October IL. 1855, PHI
! ioosenagle was found guilty OIL bg.
airy, and it was with great dissis
; hat he was prevailed upon to sm
lard labor instead Of hanging,
/ On March u. l7i5. one MeeunL
: Newport. r. l., was executed for MI
, Ter, and his body was hung in chainsl
} Miantonamy hill, where the remains
[ IN Indian were then hanging, who
been executed September l2, III?
In 1919 women were prosecuted
,colding, and in May, 1862, the Gens
| Court of Massachusetts ordered b
, ''scolds and raiders should be gagged
{ set in IA ducking stool and dippedu
I head and ears three times
n At Ipswich, Mass, June l6, il
Il Francis Brown. for stealing a Ia
Y quantity of goods, was found guilty
5 second trial, and was sentencedtoal
e the gallows an hour with rope arW
0 his neck. to he whipped thirty stri
9 md pay treble damage.
: In Boston, in 1862, the then Nd
d Dir. Seth Hudson and Joshua III
n stood a second time in the pillorf
h the space of one hour, and the fOn
Z received twenty and the latter TIL
e nine stripes for stealing, and weec
|, PEELED to pay triple damages
: pounds) and costs.
l. In 1914, Mary, wife of ThomasOl
Ii vas sentenced to be publicly whlI
!, or reproducing the magistrates
s. i646 she slandered the elders and
'entenced to have cleft stick pl
her tongue for half an hour
finally, in 1850, left the colony
3 having caused much trouble ID
! church and to the authorities.
). In 1853. at the Supreme Jua
g Court, held at Salem, Mass, u
: Ray, q thief. laughed out at the J
l. When he was sentenced to siI q
l. 5allows with rope around his he
IS IN hour, and to be whipped
thirty-nine stripes. The judge aa'
finished the sentence when he va
terrupted by Rays boisterousnesS
concluded the sentence with
years to Castle island (Boston bar
;, when Ray grew pale, his head alN
on his breast, and he said he
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