Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-06-04
THE COLD WATER CURE.
In the Oregon state Penitentiary :"
Has Proved Effective.

I'm In. Oregon state Penitentiary 1t
Has Proved Effective. !
The cold water cure has recently
been adopted at the Oregon state penn
Tertiary, with apparently satisfactory
results. For all practical purposes
flogging has been abandoned. No rule
has been established prohibiting hog
ging, and If case should be presented
In which all other punishment failed
tho lash might be resorted 10, but this
is a contingency not deemed probable.
The cold water cure has been found ell
fectiye in some very obstinate cases.
The cold water remedy consists or
stripping the prisoner to the skin ana
turning upon him stream of cold wa
ter from an ordinary garden hose. Inc
infiictlon Of the punishment is not as
brutal as logging, it leaves no scars
or permanent injuries, and the punish
ment ends the moment the water Is
turned off. A prisoner who has been
subjected to the punishment once
wants no more of 1t, though he may
be smiling within few moments after
the ordeal Is over. Governor Chamber
lain and the prison authorities are
highly pleased over the result OF the
experiments, for they have been de-
sirous of abolishing the whip.
Only one prisoner has been hogged
during this administration. That man
was a trusty and had run away ana
upon being captured was given the
penalty always imposed in such cases
ND to that time. Since then two prison,
ers have been punished with the colo
water remedy. One of them was
big burly negro. When he came tc
the prison he was assigned to work IL
the shops, but refused TO obey orders
He asserted that he didn't have tC
work and wouldn't work. lie was
taken to the bathroom, stripped anc
stood In a corner. The first squirt d
water from the hose brought out
shrek that was evidence of the enec
tiveness of the remedy. After trying
for half q minute to dodge the stream
of cold water the man gave up ah'
hogan TO beg and make promises. TIT
punishment ended, he went to wori
and has given no further trouble.
The other prisoner subjected 10 th'
water cure was white man. For sew
eral months he had been giving trouble
and seemed to find enjoyment Ill dls
obeying rules even when he galne'
nothing by it. Small penalties dld N
good and he was finally warned tina
another offense would bring sever
consequences. A few days later D.
deliberately violated an important reg
ulation and was sent to the bathroom
He began to beg before the waite
struck him, and before a paiirui o
water had been used he was complete
" subdued. Before he had dresse
again he was laughing over the PUNISH
ment, but his subsequent conduct Ia
proyed that he doesn't intend receivin
a second dose of water cure.
There are men IN the OIeSon Pc"
Tertiary who bear flogging scars ina
they will carry to their graves. IL
but fair to say that the scars were nc
received during this administrator
Some of the men thus punished al
still unconquered and are perhal
more vicious and more desperate d.
cause of the method of inhicting pan
Many a prisoner has sworn that II
ever gets an opportunity he VIII taS
the life of the officer who laid the las
across his back. Flogging was q
grading to both the prisoner ana u
man who imposed the punishmeh
The prisoner was stripped and bour
and logged until in many instance
the blood flowed down his back. N
SO with the water cure. The prisone
are not bound nor cut and Drulse
The cold water cure leaves the OMEN
ing prisoner with cleaner body al
apparently a more peaceful mind'
Portland Oregonian.