Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-07

ment against Davis Wilkill and Colby
Underwood before ne. q justice OF the
peace of Madison township, for debt
OF $3.50 l.2 and costs OH the 18th day
OF July, instant, You are therefore
commanded to levy the said debt and
| costs that may accrue of the goods
and chatiels of the said Davis Wilkill
by distress and sale thereof, returning
the Oyerplus, If any, to the said Davis
Willrill. But for want of such goods
and chattels wherein to levy, then
take the said Davis Wilkill to the iail
of said county, there 10 be detained
until said debt ana cost that may &C.
crue shall be paid or he be otherwise
legally discharged, and of this make
legal service and due return
Given under my hand and seal this
23d day of July, 1917
"ABNER CLARKSON, j. p"
William l.. Niklack, formerly Judge
of the Supreme Court CT Indiana, who
was born I'm Dubois county i'm 1922.
said the first jail in that county was
built of logs and was two stories high
! The lower floor was built of double
hewed log walls. and was called the
dungeon" being used to confinc
| criminals of the worst class, while
he upper story had IL single wall OF
hcwed logs and was called the debt
! nrs' prison." That much discrimina.
| ton was shown in favor of debtors;
| they were not confined with murder
F! trs.
The whipping post was an estab
lished institution in Indiana for sew.
cral years after the admission OF the
state, and whipping on the bare back
was legal punishment AT the No.
| nj hn MT In, G
land county in 1918 one John ]. Jones
was convicted of stealing a gun, and
the verdict of the jury was:
I'VE. the jury, find the defendant
guilty MS charged in the Indictment;
! that the gun had not been returned
| that ii was worth SIS. We do assess
and say that the defendant shall pay
n iinc OF SIS and be whipped on his
naked back ten stripes"
motion for new trial was made
and overruled. The sentence of the
court was that 1.-The defendant he
taken TO some convenient place on
the 18th day of November, 1918. to be
whipped on the naked back ten
stripes" The sentence was executed
| by the sheriff with cowhide in the
presence of quite a concourse of peo.
pie.
In 1921 man named Abraham Levi
was found guilty at Vevay of horse
stealing, and was sentenced to pay
| fine of $40. be imprisoned one day and
receive forty stripes on his bare back
The sentence was executed by the
sheriit taking the prisoner to the
STRAY pen,' where stray animals
were impounded. tying him to cor.
ner post and deputizing an ablebodied
assistant to lay on the stripes while
tho sheriff kept count. The forty
stripes were applied vigorously with
new cowhide, the man writhing and
screaming in the presence OF n large
crowd.
IAN act respecting apprentices" was
passed in 1881, and provided TINT the
parents or guardian OF any child un.
der age might bind the child In writ.
| Ing ito serve as an apprentice in any
art, craft. trade. industry, or employ
ment" until such person should reach
! the age OF eighteen years il female
| twehty'one years If n male, and such
person so bound shall serve according
~ This was called binding out"
! The person so bound became to all
intents and purposes slave for n
term of years.
Barred From Making a Contract.
The law provided legal redress for
gross misuse or III treatment, but it
was difficult for a pennilcss and I'M
protected apprentice to get the bene.
| fit of the law. The apprentice was
debarred from entering into any con
tract during the period of apprentice
ship. Tho law provided that Gin case
any apprentice shall desert the sery.
Ice Of his or her master or mistress
such master or mistress may adyer-
tisd such apprentice in any public
newspaper, offering a reward for the
apprehending and bringing back of
said apprentice, and in case such an.
prentice, leaving the service of his
master or mistress. shall openly run
at large it shall he the duty of any
Justice of peace of the county. on an.
plication Of the master or mistress,
10 issne warrant, directed TO a con
stable or other civil officer, 10 bring
the body OF such apprentice forthwith
before MIN, and upon the production
whereof to order him or her to re-
turn into the service Of his or her
master or mistress. and Upon refusal
OF such apprentice so to do to com.
nit him or her to Jail, there to remain
until he or she shall consent"
| The apprentice was made respon.
sible for all costs incurred in his pur.
suit. and return TO service was re.
nuired to make good such costs. either
in money or additional service. Here
was every element Of the fugitive
slave law-advertising. offering re
ward for arrest and return. imprison.
ment. and even worse than the fugi-
tive slave law, liability for costs.
| When General William Henry Har
rison first began TO be talked OF for
President his enemies charged that as
member of the Ohio State Senate in
| 1921 he had voted for hill nrnvihinn