St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-21
OLD-TIME PUNISHMENTS.
Days When Laws Were More Cruel Than
They Are To-day.

In 1887 Dorothy Talby, for beating
her husband, was ordered bound ant
chained to a post
In the last half of the eighteenth cen
tury it appears to have been a capita
crime fAr 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.. Southwick, 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 October,
| 1867, one Elnathan Muggin was found
guilty of passing counterfeit money
and was sentenced to have his ears
cropped.
John Gray, of Cordwainer, who en-
| deavored to spread the smallpox, was
sentenced to three months Imprisonment
and to pay fine of six pounds and
costs.
In 1862 jeremiah Dexter, of Walpole,
pursuant to sentence, stood in the pill
lory of that town for two hours for
''uttering" two counterfeit milled dol
lars.
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, 1887, 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 November
90, 1869, narrates the fact that one
Lindsay was branded with hot iron for
forgery. The officers put letter ''F'
on the palm of his hand.
In2New York during the month of
January, 1861, Joseph Bennett, John
Jenkins, Owen Mccarthy and John
Wright We're publicly whipped at the
carts tail for petty larceny.
Iu 1867 a 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, October II, 1856, Philip
Hoosenagle was found guilty of burg
larry, and it was with great difficulty
that he was prevailed upon to accept
hard labor instead of hanging.
On March II, 1715, one Mecum, of
Newport, r. l., was executed for MUIR
der, and his body was hung in chains on
Miantonamy hill, where the remains of
an Indian were then hanging, who had
been executed September -, 1912.
In 1649 women were prosecuted for
scolding, and in May, 1862, the General
Court of Massachusetts ordered that
"scolds and raiders should be gagged or
set in ducking stool and dipped over
head and ears three times
At Ipswich, Mass, June 16, 1868,
Francis Brown, for stealing 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 damage.
In Boston, in 1902, the then noted
DR.. Seth Hudson and Joshua Howe
stood a second time in the pillory for
the space of one hour, and the former
twenty and the latter thirty
nine stripes for stealing, and were COM
PEELED to pay triple damages $50 |
pounds) and costs.
In 1914, Mary, wife of Thomas Oliver,
was sentenced to be publicly whipped |
.or reproaching the magistrates; in
l64t she slandered the elders and was
sentenced to have a cleft stick put on |
1er tongue for half an hour. She
inally, in 1850, left the colony, after
having caused much trouble in the
church and to the authorities.
In 1888, at the Supreme Judicial
Court, held at Salem, Mass, James
Ray, thief, laughed out at the Judge
when he was sentenced to sit on the
,allows with a rope around his neck for
IN hour, and to be whipped with
hirty-nine stripes. The Judge had not
inished the sentence when he was in
errupted by Rays boisterousness. He
concluded the sentence with three
ears to Castle island Boston Harbor),
vhen Ray grew pale, his head dropped
N his breast, and he said he would
ather die than work.-C Chseaqo NeaUs.
equality in matrimony
vas the belief of late resident of Ja-
naica, L. I. AS he married a Young
7oman with means of her own. he
harged her one-half of the family liv-
ng expenses. If he contributed to the
hurch or the improvement of the vii
age, just one-half of that sum did he
ransfer from his wife's account to his
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