Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-15
TEE WHIPPING POST.
Romano Used the Lash Moro Than
any Other Nation
Whlppin- In Queen Eli1Shrth's limo
Flagella:Ion In France and IIol Apd-Us0
Of thu EOL IA Russia and SIiO Orient.

Tho first mention Of whipping rs
punishment occurs in tho fifth chapter
OF Exodus, whore wc find that Pharaoh
Whipped tho officers Of tho IsraclitcS
when they did not furnish tho required
number OF bricks which thcy wore com
pclled to mako every day.
In ancient times, says . writer in
American Totos and Queries. tho Rom
ans carried whipping rs punishment
farther than any other nation, and their
judges wero surrounded with IN array
OF divers kinda OF whips we'll calculated
to alright tho offender who might DO
brought bcfaro tlcm. Tho mildcst form
OF whip was n Nat leather. strap called
tho Jeru'd, and ono Of tho most sovcro
was tho EG1eIlum. which was made of
plated OK hide and almost as hard Us
iron.
From ancient times the use OF whip
ping can BIO traced through tho Middle
Ages down to, comparatively speaking,
moro modern tines. when it is custer
to find record of thr use of tho rod.
In Queen Ei=abcth's tiEo tho whip
ping-pust was all established institution
in almost ovory village in England, tho
us that the usual fec to tho cxccutioncr
for administering tho punishraont was
-four pence head" In addition to
whipping bcing thought an excellent
corrective for crime, tho authorities of
certain town in IIuntinSdonshirq must
have considered tho uso OF tho lash as
sort of universal specific as we'll. for tho
corporation records of this town men
ton that they paid eisnt-penco "to
Thomas Hawkins for whipping two poo
pie vt had tho smallpox"
In Franco and Holland whipping doca
not seem to have been 80 generally
Erat ticcd. Tho lest woman who was
publicly whipped in Franco by judicial
dccrcc was Jeanne ST. RENT do Valois,
Comtesso do 10 Motto. for her share in
tho abstraction of that diamond neck
laco which has given point TO so many
stories.
In connection with tho history OF flag
cllation in Franco may be mentioned
tho custom which prevailed thcrc land
also in italy, in olden times of ladies
visiting their acouainCanccs while still
In bed on tho morning of tho Festival
OF tho lnnoccnts," and whipping thcm
for any injuries, either roal or fancicd,
which tho victims may have dono to tho
fair flagcllants during tho past year.
Among tho Eastern nations tho rod In
various formo played q prominent part,
md from what We road China might 10
said to DO almost governed by it. ia.
pan is singularly FREQ from tho practice
of whipping, but mako up for it by hav-
Ing remarkably sanguinary criminal
code.
While the Instruments of torture used
inIsussia wore Of great variety, tho
most formidable ''punisher'' was tho
knout, an instrument OF Tartar origin
end of which descriptions differ. In its
ordinary form iG appears to DO heavy
leather thong, about eight feet in length,
attached to handle two fcct long, tho
lash being concavc, thus making two
sharp edges along its entiro length, and
when 1t fell Oh tao criminals back IL
would cut him lilEo flexible double.
cdGcd sword. running tho gauntlet"
was also employed, but principally in
tho army. IN this Lho offender had to
pass through long limo OF soldiers,
each OF whom gavo tho offender stroke
WIN plant switch. Potter tho Great
limited tho number Of blows to DO riyep
to l3.CoO, but uuloss 1t were intended I'd
k1ll tho victims, they Soldom gavo moro
than ",coo ut g time. When tho offender
was sentenced to greater nuraber Of
strokes than this, tho puniUhment was
extended over several days for tho ron
son above stated.
Whipping, after dropping out of SIGHT
ior limo III England, veg rcintroduccd
IN England in 1867, in order to put a
chcck on crimes Of violence. Tho law
was so framed that tho Judges r,ight add
ho5gin3 ut discretion to the iniprison.
mont to which tho Offenders wero also
s,ntcnccd. Tho first instance OF this
punishment boiog used waa ct Leeds,
whore two, mon received twonty-1yo
Iashes zach before cntoring their flyo
and ten years penal sorvitudo for rar.
citing. Tho whip used in this instance