The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
The WHIPPING POST.
Facts About the Institution Proposed
to Re Established in New York.
From the Chicaso Times.

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il bur.s ana tber. a~s many criminals 81
low that tro, can bo .r,f.,--sai i., no
other way rh9r by the fnaier.o1 Of bodily
main. Ofbers saw the chief Ell ,a,,- OF me
r,t-.o-nine-tails lses i'm mo fart of it's be-
in1 laid ON ia prhftc. ID the shame Of the
puhlfr castfaatiou tbev tou ,-oti that Inn
presses ti,a criminal more man fin, actual
pain endured.
/ have seen many men thrust their
wrists through the iron staples OF tho
old " hiprfug post in New castle. with
! have read a great deal of rubbish about
their backs being drenched with blood
when the v-hippirlg was done. As a matter
of fact. have never seen a drop of blood
drawn from nor the skin cut through.
thoueh i'm the cases of white men I have
seen many a one 20 back to his cell
trembling with his back scanned and
scored with great rod welts. on the skin
of the negro the Nhip usually gridirons
his back with marks that turn to a livid
gray.
do not say that the Delaware sheriffs
never draw blood. but no sheriff has done
so habifualiv. and the custom of many
of them. especially in the cases of first
offense men" is to lay on the lash so gin
gerIy as 10 suggest an imitation of a
lazy housemaid brushing away flies rather
than outraged Justice in the act of flag
citation.
There is a popular tradition to the effect
that Delaware never has 10 Whin the
man twice Unfortunately this is a fall
lacy. only last May william McGrann.
bcttar l,nou-n in De1a,.ara az "Rucl-,,,,
Meginness. went to the post smiling after
his fourth dose of the cat-o'-nine-taiIs
since 1850. ana "Bucky" is young man
Yet. and probably has in store the making
of the acquaintance of many future sher-
ifs of New Castle county.
There formerly was an old negro char
acter known simply as Peter who could be
counted on to grace the post or the Di1orv
or both at least once a year and il was
said that for a decade he had never
missed his turn. Peter doubtless had Al
surname but if he had it was only
known ON the prison records The conn
try louis who on "Aogging dav'' hang their
/ heels over the stone wall of The iaU enclo-
sure shuck peanuts. and shoot tobacco
Juice at the piIorv. knew him only as
pete" ana he ALWAYS had a rousing re-
/ ception Peter had been whipped by every
/ New castle sheriff during the last six
/ or eight years at the time witnessed his
annual triumph I'm 1855. and he seemed 10
be rather proud OF his record. He used to
/ catalogue the various sberi0s and their
relative merits something after this fash
/ ion.
sheriff Jones, ten lashes, laid EN- on
pretty good sheriff smith twenty lash
Is. stealing chickens. didn't hurt SHERIFF
D III.
! Yer spoon. made me dance. Sheriff Brown
drunk and disorderlv. can't vbin worth
"a d.
When 1 saw Peter wbipped the last
time he took his twenty Iashes without
wincing, though his back was crisis
/ crossed with big wells. II was "A neyyIv-
elected sheriff. and he was doing his
first public whipping Peter gathered IN
his tattered coat when ii was all over
erinned good-naturedlv in the sheriff's
face. and said: "Sav. boss. dat didn't
hurt a little bit. Yeh better git some
! dumb bells and practice"
Of course such cases as pete" and
'Bucky" Meginness are the exceptions
that prove the rule likely enough The
| whining does hurt. even when il is laid
on only in the gentle. dv-dustinp method.
and the average criminal has a whole
some dread of il. To hank burglars and
foreers the cat-o'-nine-tails is a positive
horror Delaware at tfnnesI has enter
tained in her old New Castle iail several
cracI5smen Of a distinguished TYNE. such
as "Red" T,earv and "Big Frank'' Law
Tor and il is said these fellows did not
drsad tho nrosnect Of long irnprisonment