San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-21
Child FIogging in Warsaw.

London Times.
A terrible act of brutality perpetra-
ted by the Russian authorities at
Warsaw has caused great indignation
throughout Poland. AS usual the
facts have come out little by little and
considerably after date. 1t was on the
3lst of May last that the daughter of
Gen. Pouzeref, who is but q child /,
was playing with q ball in the SAKE
Gardens 1t Warsaw. She CHANGED to
meet boy named Winter, and struck
him with her ball. The boy, who
was only ten years old seized the ball
and threw it back probable with some
VIGILANCE. Thereupon the servant In
charge Gen .Pouzerff's child rushed
forward, caught the boy Winter and
began to beat him. The boy however
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 Russian
The servant now called for police,
and the boy was taken and locked
up all night. A full report of the in
cident was drawn up and sent to the
Governor General OF the province,
Gen, Gourko. On the morrow Gen.
Gourko replied that the boy must be
logged and should receive twenty
five lashes.
According to the law, corporal pun
ishment can only be administered to
children by their parents, but Win
tiers father was dead The police
therefore, should have applied to the
boys mother. They preferred seek
ing out Mr.. Olchefski the boys tutor
or guardian. They told Mr.. Olchef-
ski that if he did not carry out the
sentence they would close his bust
ness house, cafe and confectionery
shop. The tutor fearing that he would
lose his means oflivelihood, reluctant
ly consented. The preparations were
than made in due form. In accordan-
ce with the law the prison doctor was
called, then the boy was brought from
his cell, stripped and the f1ogging be-
gan. At the seventeenth stroke he
tainted and the doctor interfering,
said it would be dangerous to infiict
such violent punishment. The boy
was of highly nervous disposition,
and the doctor could not anwser for
his life If such torture was continued
Mr.. Olchefski also was horrorstriken
at the effect the blows produced.
He angrlly threw the whip away,
and said the police migt close his cafe
and ruin him if they chose, but
nothing should persuade him to finish
the f1ogging. Finding that both
doctor and tutor remained obdurate.
Inc police and prison authorities sent
dispatch to the Governor General
asking for instructions, and, relating
all that had occurred.
1t will scarcely be credited that Gen.
Gourdo the hero of the Plevna Pass
at once telegraphed back the flogging
was to be finished. The police there
fore, the tutor persisting in his refu.
sal to act, had to give the unfortunate
boy the remaining eighteen blows, so
as to complete the sentence.
lnsensible, covered with blood, his
flesh torn from his back, and In a
state of violent commissions, this young
boy was brought back to his mother.
The unhappy woman had all this
time been kept in ignorance as to the
fate of her son: and the shock that
his return in such q condition must
have produced upon her feelings may
well 9 imagined. Such cruelty as
this perpetrated for so trivial a reason
on very young child, has natural
greatly exaggerated the Polish inha-
bitants Of Warsaw, and it will be no
easy matter for the Russians to justi-
~ conduct of this description.