The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-04
ARY PUNISHMENTS.
EroM HOS SOLDIERS AND
oRs ONCE SUBMITTED.

HTOW HOS SOLDIER AMI
.oR3 ONCE SUBMITTED.
s-a,.N.ne-TAils end the Tri-
-Running the Gauutlet-rhe
ana Ball in the French Army.
~ Round the Fleet - Some
-Keelhaulng-Abo-
Of FlogginR IN the United
4 Navy.
Fxor the NeB York World.
= Presumed that a certain event
Entity attracted attention at
IA Pa, has awakened general
Information concerning military
,a,ttx When Col. Streator ordered
1nv,s to be hanged up by the thumbs
,srhrneHt for verbal indiscretion he
Il picturesque old method which
IN uto disuss among civilized ma
rmhny years.
I~os the incident will bring up a
trEsn of recollections of thrilling
offction. They will yearn to read
II lie cat-s'-nine-tails and the tri-
INNING the gauntlet, keelhauling,
"a other such things that lent to
sM naval and military life much of
Arrest Capt. Marryat, ia one OF
HHt tful novels, makes captain,
drtyIe sea-dog, opder seaman to
,csix dozen lashes for splitting on the
deck. The author, as a naval OILS
"a often superintended hoggings, an d,
H. hangings from the yard-arm,
La appreciate the humor Of the situ-
n6iry seems to show that the punish
&eviyed by Col. Streator was one in
rather among naval than land forces.
III aboard there are many conveniences,
Ming puleys for suspending mar. and
~ piV0n an opportunity to dis
&eamanlike ingenuity in the use of
A favordte way Of inducing sobriety
Me old navies of this country and Eng
was TO tie up seaman by the hands
at the tips OF his toes barely touched
Heck. But OF the ways Of the old
III Xioned naval officer more shall be said
"a.
Il F1oGG1NG IN THE ROMAN ARMIES.
IN fact that impresses itself on the student
III 1.-The history Of torture or corporal punish
[ lent in military bodies is that it has
a ways given rise to a great deal of dissatis-
faction In the Roman armies defamation
And other extreme methods Of punishment
kvere often practiced, but violent 1ogging
kvss also common. Men we're occasionally
Fbeaten to death, and this result led In many
leases to mutinies aud public disorders. The
A Sayorite remedy for mutiny was defamation,
or the killing Of one in ten. Since
Il that early time military officers have
q naturally resorted more or less
20 violence as a means OF main
g. tanning order among men accustomed to
'E violence. As early as the end of the last
century however, there was some outcrY in
I che English parliament against corporal
punishment in the army, but the wars OF
the beginning OF this century caused mill
tary men to have things their own way.
Corporal punishment in the form OF vio-
Ieuce has disappeared in European armies
as they have become nations Ia arms This
account Of torture or corporal punishment
must therefore deal with more or less
ancient history.
Corporal punishment was abolished In the
English army and navy later than in those
OF any European power. At the time of its
IS abolition In Ep9land it was not even prac-
ticed in the Russian army. Until the army
and navy discipline act of 1879 was passed
Z by Mr.. Gladstone British soldier was liable
90 be logged TO death at any time. When
the offense charged was minor one
the authority Of regimental
court-martial, at which the colonel
presided The other officers were not in the
M habit OF thwarting their colonel. and he
seldom failed to hold up the hands of
subordinate who wished to have q man
Isl logged. Discipline had to be maintained
in the service. Power to fog was given
# under the mutiny act, first passed in 1885,
aud renewed annually. The effect Of the
army and navy discipline act is practically
LIldJ uORRluR Is only 70 Do lUIliCLoQ II war
time for offeuses for which death Is an
VA alternative punishment.
Sir Charles Napier, writing about the
81 British army at the end Of the last cen fury,
says that he frequently saw from 600 to
III 900 lashes inflicted in consequences of SEN
fences OF regimental. courts martial only
A man who had suffered part of his pun
Sshment wac often brought from hospital to
receive the remainder. Officers and nom
commissioned officers carried rattans or
supplejacks and used them freely.
FOR INsUBoRDINATE VERSE.
In debatel in the House of Commons in
M 1911 attention was called to the case Of
q private in militia regiment near Liverpool
who was condemned to receive 200 lashes
# Tor complaining of the inferior quality Of
che bread served out to the men and after
ward writing a song about it. Citizens
who 90 to Peekskill once a year should be
Interested in that case.
The offenses for which the cat could be
administered were mstiny, insubordinRtion
and violence, or using or Offering to use
violence to superior officers, drunkenness on
M ouly, sale OF or making away with arms,
ammunition, accouterments or necsssaries;
stealing from comrades, immoral or other
1sgraceful conduct. It would be hard to
ma case OF misconduct which could not
De brought under one OF these heads From
Isl tozl TO 1873 one man out of every two tried
Dy court-martial was logged. About
1oOO men each year were tried.
The instrument in use, called the cat-o'-
IA nhe-talls, was q weapon consisting Of a
81 wooden handle. about eighteen inches in
length, armed with nine thongs of the Same
length, each thong bearing five or six knots,
compressed and hardened into sharp edges
III each had acquired the consistency of
morn. Its designing is credited to King
William Ill, before whose time the weapon
n ia use had only three thongs The con-
oemned usually was tied to the tri-
angles, device consisting Of three tent
poles dashed together at the top, The cat
was lad on under the direction OF the COM
maadlAg officer in the presence of the whole
s. Iezinent. 1t was customary for a drum
lner TO beat time for the executioner. One
S"oNe In two seconds was the usual rate.
sUFFERER's TALE.
hero named Somerville, whose writings
Nere freely quoted by the advocates Of hu-
Ihanlty IN parliament, has left touching
n description of his sufferings under the cat.
NJ was private in the Scots Greys, and
& vas condemned in 1882 to receive 200
lasnes for highly unsoldierlike conduct in
IHmountng without leave when taking his
LESSONS In the riding school and ahsolutalv