Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-24
CHILD FLOGGING IN WARSAW. Indignation n in Poland over an Act o1
 Russian Brutality.

Russian Brutality.
 A terrible act of brutality perpetrated by the Russian authorities at Warsaw has caused great indignation throughout Po- land. As usual, the facts have come out little by little and considerably after date. It was on the 31st of May last that the daughter of General Pouzereff, who is but a child, was playing with 0 ball in the Saxe gardens at Warsaw. She chanced to meet a boy named Winter and struck him with her ball. The boy, who was only ten years old, seized the ball and threw it back, pro- bably with some force. Thereupon the servant in charge of General Pouzereff's child rushed forward, caught the boy Win ter, and began to beat him. The boy, how ever, resisted, hit back at the servant, and called her names, which showed that he was Pole and had been taught to look with contempt upon the Russians The servant now called for the police, and the boy was taken and locked up all night A full report of the incident was drawn up and sent to the governor general of the pro- vince, General Gou1ko. On the morrow be logged, and should receive twenty-five lashes.
 According to the law, corporal punish ment can only be administered to children by their parents, but Winters father was dead The police, therefore. should have applied to the boys mother. They prefer red seeking out MT. Olchefski the boys tutor or guardian. They told MT. Olchef- ski that if he did not carry out the sen tence they would close his business house, a cafe and confectionery shop. The tutor fearing that he would lose his means of livelihood, reluctantly consented. The preparations were then made in due form. In accordance with the law the prison doc tor was called, then the boy, was brought from his cell, stripped, and the logging began. At the seventh stroke he tainted, and the doctor interfering, said it would be dangerous to infict such violent pun ishment. The boy was of 8 highly ner- vous disposition and the doctor could not answer for his life if such torture was con- tinued. MT. Olchefski, also, was horror stricken at the effect the blows had pro- duced. He angrily threw the whip away, and said the police might close his cafe and ruin him if they chose, but nothing could persuade him to finish the fogging. Find ing that both doctor and tutor remained obdurate, the police and prison authorities sent dispatch to the governor general e-SAA1A6 tOA AAAoeA SCAo4oS dAAlA AC1hpluS ali that had occurred.
 It will scarcely be credited that General Gorrko, the hero of the Plevna Pass, at once telegraphed back that the fogging was to be finished. The police, therefore, the tutor persisted in his refusal to act, had to give the unfortunate boy the re- maining blows so as to complete the sen- tence.
 Insensible, covered with blood, his flesh torn from his back, and in state of vio- lent convulsions, this young boy was brought back to his mother. The unhap- py woman had all this time been kept in ignorance as to the fate of her son, and the shock that his return in such 8 condition must have produced upon her feelings may well be imagined.
 Such cruelty as this perpetrated for so trivial reason on very young child, has greatly exasperated the Polish of Warsaw, and it will be no easy matter for the Russians to justify conduct of this description.