The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-19
As CRUEL As RUSSIA 5
Is the Prison Rule in the En-
pire of the Kaiser
WOMEN LEGALLY FL0GGED
Torture Horrors of Some of
the Prison Cells.

New York, Oct. N.-The World says:
Women are logged in Germany today,
and the punishment excites no popular
opposition. The lash is sanctioned not on
ly by law but by popular opinisn as well
as is shown by the Indifference with
which the German newspapers have
treated a new and curious work just pub
lished. This is Manual for Directors
OF Prisons" and its chief interest lies in
the astonishing revelations which II
makes concerning the foggirg CT prison
ers In the penal institutions throughout
Germany. In Prussia alone. according 10
the official records just published in Ber-
lin, more than 30 women have been pun
Ished by the lash during the past twelve
months. The author of the new Man
ual writes to the point with frank bru-
tallty- He explains that the regulation
cat has a handle thirty-seven inches
long. and ten leather thongs, each forty
inches long.
The maximum number of strokes which
may be inflicted upon the back Of the
male or female prisoner varies according
70 the state. Thus in the grand ducheies
OF klenberg-Schwerin. and AIdenbe-g
the maximum is fixed at twenty-five in
the kingdom of Saxony at thirty and in
the kingdom of Prussia at sixty strokes.
broken at the fifth blow and the sue
ceedinS blows should widen the break
IN Such q manner as to leave the entire
pack raw by the time the last blow has
oeea applied. The victim takes the pun
tShment in a recumlJept position being
strapped down by hands and feet to a
long wooden bench In precisely the same
manner as Is done in the much-denounced
prisons of Russia
The punishment cell is an exceedingly
cruel contrivance. 1t contains no furni-
ture OF any kind whatsoever, not even
board bed or a stove. and the floor and
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OF wood, the points of which are turned
upward in the case of the floor and out
ward in that of the walls. Into the cell
thus constructed the prisoner. is thrust.
clothed only in thin canvas jacket and
trousers, in the case of a man. or a thin
dress where the prisoner Is woman
At the end of twenty-four hours con-
nnement IN these cells, the feet and the
portions of the body which have come in
TO contact with the pointed surface OF
the floor and walls are covered with blood
and it usually takes a full month before
the prisoner thus tortured Is able to walk
again.
If these forms of punishment seem bar
barous and out Of place 1t must be borne
in mind that they are after all. not our
or place IN country the statute book OF
knlch renders 1t Legitimate for an en-
ployer to administer a fiogging TO his male
and female domestic servants Among
the latter are included, according to
recent decision of the supreme court. the
ladies' of title and of rank who fill the
position Of ladies-in- waiting and maids
of-honor TO the reigning sovereigns their
consorts and the princes and princesses
of their house. These countesses. prin-
cesses and duchesse may therefore be
fogged with impunity. far as the law Is
concerned, by their employers.
On the 10th Of December, 1897. Rev. s. A.
Donahoe, pastor NJ E. church, South, PIT
Pleasant, w Va, contracted severe
cold which was attended from the begin
ming by violent coughing. He says: AT
ter resorting TO a number of so-called
specifics. usually kept In the house. TO
no purpose, L purchased a bottle Of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which
acted like a charm. I most cheerfulIy
recommend it to the public" For sale
by druggists.