Evening journal., 1903-09-26
BLOOD FLOWED
WHEN LASH FELL
Big Crowd Saw Prisoners
Whipped at New Castle
County Workhouse
Lash WELL LAID ON BARE BACKS
"Whiskers" Mullin and Alfred Spencer
Convicted Of Highway Robbery, Each
Receive -Forty-Nearo Who Attempt
ed Felonious Assault Cot Thirty.


The most severe justice ever known
to the courts Of the United States ana
which is only exercised in Delaware,
was neted out to offenders at the New
Castle county worlShoase this morning
when the lash was administered TO cui~
\ prits for several crimes by Warden
fAIeserve:
Frank Ward, 10 lashes, Is months
Thomas Campbell, 10 lashes IS
Months.
Theodore walcott, eolored, 10 lashes.
Edwards Fnkins. 10 lashes. Is
4 months.
George clayton. colored 10 lashes. 6
\ months.
James Hunter. colored. 10 iashes. 1
month.
Thomas Mullin, 40 lashes, years.
/ Henry Pitts, colored. 30 lashes, 1
& hour in pillory, 10 months.
Alfred Spencer. 40 lashes. 1 hour in
\ pillory 6 years.
Charles Wallace. 10 lashes. 1 month
4 William Darsey colored, 10 lashes, 1
hour in the pillory.
George Compton, 10 lashes.
Percy Coleman, colored, 10 lashes and
is months.
Alfred Turner. colored, 20 lashes, Il
n months.
The first prisoners brought out were
Spencer and Mullin. who were put in
the pillory at 10.l6 and released at
11.16 after which the whipping began.
81 Spencer showed signs of his time in
q the pillory by staggering away, but
Mullin walked erect to his cell. Spen-
Ger showed tobacco all the time and
squirmed about, but Mullin stood per-
q fectly still. The majority of the pris-
Il oners took their whipping stoically.
First Man Whipped.
Ward was the first man brought out
4 His bare back excited burst of PITY
N from the crowd. which was the largest
that ever attended a whipping at the
A wofkhouse. The stockade was thronge,
81 with a niorbidly curious crowd thaf
strlined every nerve to see.
As the cat-o'nine tails first cut the All
,xt -, !, Hicked swish Ward covered an,
.lnTSr fi,,tl, 30 the past-.As each blow
fell he cringed as did every other Of tn
fourteen. Their muscles would begin e
witch even before The leasch descended
All received ten lashes with the excep
Ion of Mullin. Spencer. Pitt and Turner
Fhe first two received forty iashes eacl
and the other thirty and twenty lashe
respectively.
EWalcott made more protestations thai
any Of the others. crying Justify ant
praying alternately. Just before he re
ceived his last blow he cried; II neve
win take another pair Of shoes. master.
Hunter, another negro took his pnish
ment without a sound. and when belni
led away shook his head In a knowing
manner to the crowd.
''Whskers" Mullin took his forty lashe
without a murmur, although after tn
first ten had been laid on each one. sen
streams Of blood trclSllng down his back
Henry Pitts, the negro who attempte'
an aaasuIt upon Mrs. Ella Ruth took hi
punishment harder than any OF th
others lie tried to climb the post an
wrenched his hands free from the iro
braces and had to be put back.
Spencer, who was a partner Of Multi
and wko also received forty lashes did no
taAe his punishment like his pal. bu
groveled around the post Several viii
cries escaped him. 1t looked at one tim
as though he were going to FAINT. His ski
was unusually tender and each blow o
tie cat brought nine distinct wets
which. after they had been laid on 70
otAAA'
untl his whole back was as raw as
piece CT meat.
Albert Turner, the negro who hell
up Samuel Congo and robbed him
executed a war dance around the post
getting as far away from the wardei
as possible. He was brought back b.
a sharp cut on the side. He was tn
last man whipped. When his pun
ishment was concluded the crowd
which numbered several hundred, in
cluding many women. surged out of tn
stockade and made dash for the cars
as It was past noon when the last bloS
was struck
Pitt and Dorsey were placed in tn
pillory at 1 o'clock and released at
But few OF the crowd remained to sc
~ the men put in the stocks as tn
Il whipping seemed to satisfy even In
lnA most morbid.
Several of those who had pushe
their way to the front of the crow
We're sorry they did so. as they turne
their eyes away and cringed almost a
much as the prisoners. They could no
force their way through the crrwd an
were compelled to stay through tn
whole proceeding.