The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-17

marrying as well as payment of taxes. l Following Is a copy of an execution l issued by a justice of the peace In Jefferson county in 1S17:
 state of Indiana, Jefferson county. i ss To Peter Hemphill, constable of Madison township. greeting: Whereas, William Crittenden, assignee of James | Wilson, assignee of James D. Humph- i rev, obtained judgment against Davis 1 WiIkill and Colby Underwood before me. a Justice of the peace of Madison township for a debt of s2 60 1-2. and costs, on the 11th day of July instant, you are therefore commanded to levy l the said debt and costs that may ac- crue of the goods and chattels of the said Davis WilRill by distress and sale thereof returning the overplus, if any, to the said Davis Wflkill. But for want l of such goods and chatteis whereon to levy, then take the said Davis Wilkill to the jail of said county, there to be detained until said debt and | cost that may accrue shall Do paid or l he be otherwise legally discharged. and of this make legal service and due return.
 Given under my hand and seal this 1 23rd day of July, 1877.
 "Abner CIarkson, J. P."
 First Jail q Log Cabin.
 William E. Niblack, formerly judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who was born in Dubois county in 1922. said the first jail In that county was built of logs and was two stories high. The lower story was built If double hewed log walls and was called the dungeon" being used to confine crim- inals of the worst class, while the upper story had single wall of hew- ed logs and was called the debtors prison That much discrimination was shown in favor of debtors; they were not confined with murderers.
 The whipping post was an estab- Iished institution in Indiana Tor sev- eral years after the admission Of the State and whipping on the bare pacK was A legal punishment. At the Mo- vepnber term of the court in Switzer- land county In 1918 one John J. Jones was convicted of stealing gun ana the verdict of the jury was:
 'FWe, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment; that the gun had not been returned, that it was worth SIS. We do assess and say that the defendant shall pay a fine of SIS and shall be whipped on his naked back ten stripes"
 A motion for o new trial was made and overruled The sentence of the court was that the defendant be taken to some convenient place on the l4th day of November. 1918, at o'clock D. m, then and there to be whipped on his naked back ten stripes" The sentence was executed by the sherin with a eowhide in the presence of quite a concourse of people.
 In 1921 a man named Abraham Levi was found guilty at Vevay of horse stealing and was sentenced to pay fine of S70 be imprisoned one day and receive forfty stripes on his bare back, rt.s-s faA haFNt sheriff taking the prisoner to the "es- tray pen, where animals were im- pounded. tying him to a corner post and deputizing an, able-bodted assist ant to lay on the stripes while the sheriff kept count, The forty stripes were applied vigorously with a new cowhide, the man writhing and scream ing in the presence of a large crowd
 "An act respecting apprentices, passed in 1881, provided that the pa- rents or guardian of any child under age might bind the child in writing "to serve as an apprentice in any art, craft, trade. mystery or employment" until such person should reach the age of IS years if a female or 21 years if a male. land such person so bound shall serve accordingly" This was called "binding out" The person so bound became to all intents and purposes slave for a term of years.
 Barred from Making a Contract.
 The law provided legal redress for gross misusage or Ill treatment, but it was difficult for a penniless and unpro- tected aprentice to get the benefit of the law. The apprentice was debarred from entering into any contract during hhe psriod of apprenticeship. The law provided that fin ease any appren- tice shall desert the service of his or her master or mistress, such master or mistress may advertise such appren- tice in any public newspaper, offering a reward for the apprehending and bringing back the said apprentice, and in case such apprentice, leaving the service of his master or mistress, shall openly run at large, 1t shall be the duty of any justice of the peace of the county, on application of the master or mistress. to Issue warrant, direct ed to e constable or other civil officer, to bring the body of such apprentice forthwith before him, and upon the production whereof to order him or her to return into the service of his or her master or mistress. and upon re- fusal of such apprentice so to do, to commit him or her 10 jail. there to re- main until he or she shall consent"