River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-12
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Days When Laws Were More Cruel Than
They Are To-day.

Days When Laws Were More Cruel Than
They Are To-day.
In 1887 Dorothy Talby. for beating
her husband, was ordered bound ane
chained TO post.
In the last half of the eighteenth CEN
fury it appears to have been a capital
crime for negroes to steal.
In 1858 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 5. 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 founc
guilty of passing counterfeit money
and was sentenced TO have his eari
cropped.
John Gray, OF Cordwainer. who On.
deavored TO spread the smallpox. wa.
sentenced TO three months Imprisonment
and to pay fine of six pounds an6
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-nint
stripes at the public whipping post il
Boston for hOuse-robbing; thirty-nint
for robbing one house and ten for rob
bling another.
On December 6, 1887. William CLARK
was executed at Northampton for burg.
larry. The same day Charles Rose anc
Jonathan BLY, were executed at Lennon
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
20, 1869, narrates the fact that one
Lindsay was branded with hot iron for
forgery. The officers put letter IF
on the palm of his hand.
IN New York during the month on
January, 176l, Joseph Bennett. John
Jenkins. Owen Mccarthy and John
Wright were publicly whipped at the
carts tail for petty larceny.
In 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
IS for stealing copper kettle.
At a session of court held at Norris.
town, Pa, October IL, 1886, Philip
Hoosenagle was found guilty OF burg
larry, and it was with great difficulty
that he was prevailed upon to accep'
hard labor instead of hanging.
On March u, 17l5, one Mecum, O
Newport. r. L., was executed for muir,
der, and his body was hung in chains on
Miantonamy hill, where the remains o.
an Indian were then hanging, who had
been executed September II, 1712
In 1919 women were prosecuted for
scolding, and in May, 1862, the General
Court of Massachusetts ordered that
'scolds and raiders should be gagged OF
set in a ducking stool and dipped over
head and ears three times"
At Ipswich, Mass, June 16, 1863,
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 a rope around
his neck, to be whipped thirty stripes,
and pay treble damage.
In Boston. in 1862, the then noted
DIR. Seth Hudson and Joshua Howe
stood a second time in the pillOry for
the space of one hour. and the former
received twenty and the latter thirty
nine stripes for stealing, and were com.
PEELED to pay triple damages CSC
pOunds) and costs.
In 1914, Mary, wife of Thomas Oliver,
was sentenced to be publicly whipped
for approaching the magistrates; in
1916 she slandered the elders and was
sentenced to have a 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.
IT, 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
gallows with a rope around his neck for
an hour, and to be whipped with
thirty-nine stripes. The judge had NOT
finished the sentence when he was in
terrupted by Rays boistercusness. He
concluded the sentence with three
years to Castle island (BostoE Harbor),
when Ray grew pale, his head dropped
on his breast, and he said he would
rather die than work Chicago NelCS
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