The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-22
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CENTRAL PRISON
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81 never did"
Didn't the Castle Hayne men arrive
at your place in bad condition.
'They did. They came January oath. T"
''When did the big snow occur?"
Il believe it was on February 11th."
HIS MEN ALL BAD ONES.
He didn't remember whether he ever
whipped Andrew Farrar or not. He was
crippled and he made allowance for
him.
You haven't done a great deal of
whipping this year, have you!
mo"
Not as much as last year have you?"
Haven't had as bad men"
What per cent of your men do you
whip
about half
do you think it necessary to whip
so per cent of your men to maintain
discipline?"
"Oh yes. sir. The men sent to me
are worse than those sent to the other
camps
Il ask you why?'
Il don't know | just know it's done.
Mewborne did it and old Smith, too"
How many times did you strike Joe
Macon over the head with the butt end
of your strap"
Twice
Then did Russell whip him?"
yes
And Safer, too?"
Yes
what then was Joe's condition."
..He had a pretty good whipping"
Twill you give this committee your
views on what constitutes good whip
ping?"
about forty lashes.'
$50 Joe had forty. The penitentiary
rules hold you down to twenty, don't
they?'
''I've never seen such rule"
On redirect examination he said Dix
on and McCaskie couldn't manage the
bad men, long term fellows, and they
had to be sent to him. He objected to
Joe Mazon's coming.
DO You say positively you've never
whipped a man so that you left the flesh
raw?"
Il wouldn't swear to that
On further cross examination by Mr..
Gattis Summerell said if a man was
struck with the edge of his strap it
would draw the blood, but that two
blows on the same spot with it fiat
would not necessarily draw the blood.
THE KILLING OF LOWE.
Colonel Thos. w. Mason, who lives
about three miles from the Northampton
farm, gave Summerell good charac-
ter, and said he had never heard him
called cruel man until Jim Lowe died.
He was there, he said, "a few days after
Lowe died and that Summerell told
him the matter was giving him much
trouble, as Sears had no authority and
ought not to have whipped Lowe.
This was the first | ever heard of
cruelty on the part of Summerell This
was August 31st, 1893, and the begin
ming of reports of cruelty. 1t might
might not have heard of it,"
Mr.. George r. Burgwyn. recalled. re-
lated the Macon whipping as told to
him sometime ago by Summerell. 1t
did not vary materially from the story
Summerell himself.
Mr.. Burgwyn, do you inflict corporal
punishment on your hands,"
I'D rather you wouldn't ask me that
question, Mr.. Brown. 1t wouldn't do
you any good and it might do me
HARM"
The next witness was j. n. Hamlet,
overseer on the Caledonia farm He
said Joe Macon had bad character as
convict. He announced himself as a
staunch believer in corporal punishment.
but couldn't tell what per cent. Of
prisoners were whipped on an average.
The record. he said. was kept at the
central prison.
MANY PERSONS FROST BITTEN.
DIR. III. w. Lewis, of Jackson, North
ampton county, knew of several people
in his section that We're frost bitten dur
ing the big snowall negroes He had
ten or fifteen cases of this kind.
xviii the condition of mans health