The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-04-13
BOTANY GAY .BRuIEs.


so1Aar y aAY sau1fs.
Terrible Puia ,eat Inhieted for I'm.
aehaty q Trivial 06anses.
We read something in the stories
Of the slave trade how the colored
people were forced on the deck to
the music of the pipe, says the
Brooklyn Times. This was for ex-
ercise. TWAS thought wrong to de-
preciate the market value of the Ia
Dor on board by sapping its strength
in idle confinement. The convict
men and women also danced on
board sometimes. But it was to the
music of the boatswain's cat. 1t
was considered treat for the sail
ors to be allowed to fog the con-
victs. But it was a refinement of
luxury to fog women. The noble
creatures pleasantly contended for
this graceful privilege. If any
woman convicted objected to the
arrangement described by Captain
Bertram-as some rustic Devon
shire girl convicted of stealing ap-
pies and transported by some BOBBY
Squire might have done-she was
at once fiogged into submission. If
this was not done on the direct
charge another was easily invented.
But, as rule, no misunderstanding
arose from idle scruples in this
matter.
IF A DRUNKEN OFFICER
Wanted a man or woman, girl or
boy flogged at the gangway for his
amusement, there was no trouble
about trifle like that. But the
best results in this direction were
obtained when the ship carried a
guard of recruits for the New South
Wales corps on board. These were
artists in vice in their own squalid
way. Often they were placed in
charge of a woman's ship. The
Juliana, for instance, carried 226
women. One is not surprised to
find that the voyage lasted fifteen
months. The wonder is that it ever
finished in the usual way at all.
= One ship carried thirty
six pairs of handouts and 200 basils
with chains for use on the voyage.
Many convicts made the voyage IN
irons all the way.
1t saved trouble. Charges of In
tended or attempted mutiny were
trumped up. Governor Hunter men,
tions a case where, "in consequence
Of some conjecture that they meant
to seize the ship and murder the
officers" the whole cargo was ironed
for the whole voyage. "They look
most wretched from their long con-
finement,' he adds with simple
neatness. On the Marquis of Corn
wallis, in 1896, an intended mutiny
was disclosed to the captain by a
convict. The captain could only
induce the soldiers and sailors to
spare lives by tempting them with
the offer of a wholesale fogging, in
which each should take part. "At
II o'clock we commenced hogging
these villains at the gangway, and
continued engaged on that service
until forty-two men and eight wom'
en- received punishment"
DESERTED BY GOD AND MAN.
The convicts upon their arrival
were left to the mercy of wretches
whose characters are best painted
by their own acts. The story be-
comes too Zola like in its realistic
horror to be minuteiy treated by
any other than a Zola's pen. Men
and women were flogged alike at
the triangle, or at the carts tail. A
Botany Bay dozen was twenty-five
lashes, and as many as one thous.
and were often ordered and admin
istered. Such a sentence as this
reads nowadays like sentence Of
death by torture, but the presiding
fiends had to some extent guarded
against that. So we read in the old
stories of men who were cut tc
pieces from the neck to the knees
and when all semblance of human
ity was thus crushed out of the
quivering jelly that represented the
body, as the system had already
driven the Divine image out Of the
soul, the victim was saturated With
brine to expedite his recovery, sc
that his sentence might be com
pleted in similar way.
On such sentence, signed BY
Judge Advocate Atkins, John Har
ris and Thomas Jameson, is giver
with others in the report of Colone
Johnstone's court-martial. 1t bears
date 1907, and sets forth that sever
convicts, having attempted to es
cane from the settlement were re
captured and brought back. Thel
were sentenced-one to receive 1OU
lashes, three others 500 lashes each
one to hard labor in an iron collar
l(?) in the coal mines at New Cas-
tie, and two others to 2OO lashe'
with three years. hard labor. 1t il
ot 1;Hc,,lf +o imagine that thl