The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-30
WHIPPING POST
IN DELAWARE
Twenty Times the Cato Nine
Tails Came Down on the
Quivering Form of the
Victim.
A NATIONWIDE PROTEST
Led From the Post, He Raised Hi
l Head Defiantiy and Walked
Away Firmly
] Alone.
A NATIONWIDE PROTEST.

[By Bond Beddies, staff correspondent
Of the United Press.l
f NEW CASTLE COUNTY WORK
HOUSE, WILMINGTON, Del, Nov.
29. One hundred and eighty livid
decorations on the bare back with
'cat-o-nine-tails' while shackled to
whipping post
This was Delaware's methods of
criminal reform" suffered today by
Cornelius G. Street, white youth,
convicted OF burglary. He stole a
watch from a family related to the
DuPonts, OF powder trust fame. An
added penalty is ten years imprison-
ment at hard labor.
Twenty times the "cat-o-nine tails''
hit the quivering white skin of the
twenty-eight-year-old prisoner. Nine
times the twenty fiery red streamers
clear across his back were left by the
"cat" Each of the nine thongs at
every blow left Its stinging lur!d i'm
print.
Fagellation of Street today was the
iafter-climax of the nationwide pro-
test, voiced In congress against con-
/ tinuance of the Delaware whipping
ipost." But all Delaware rrom Gov
ernor Miller down insisted upon its
| pound of flesh today from young
Street. His fiogging was with the
consent Of Governor Miller, who re
y fused to remit the lashes, from
4 Streets sentence.
4 Not until all hope of mitigation oi
!. whipping post" penance was left, die
i Warden Crawford, who says he has
4 flogged over 100 prisoners, led Street
his body barred to the waist.
4 AS If an after-thought, a deputy
shed his coat and draped it over the
prisoners back while his hands
|were being locked within the stee
shackles on the whipping post.
!. The coat was pulled away and tc
the dull monotony of turnkey count
ing the strokes, Crawford flayed the
bare back before him. Smack
smack, smack, p twenty times, about
/ a second apart-the crack of the
whip resounded against the white
torso which quivered in unison witt
the warden's arm. The lashes as re
quired by the letter of the law were
well laid on not with brutal force
but firmly and solidly applied.
The warden appeared to use slight
lly more steam than When he fog
ged two negroes two weeks ago. NJ
unnecessary force was used. No bloo'
was drawn. Street was not beaten
in the extreme sense Of the word b,l
he writhed under every blow. HI
shoulders and ribs worked convulsive
! ly as each blow fell. But he made n
outcry, not even a moan. He wa
: game Clenching his teeth, his breat
Kissed through jaws set with pain.
Crawford distributed the lashin
: from neck to waist Nine faint whit
marks showed dimly at the frs
blow The marks grew and spread
: decorations grew darker. They dawr
i ed into faint pink, then slowl,
8 they grew more crimson-and darl
/ er. At twenty" they stood out /
/ lurid brilliancy. apparently purplis
3 at the edges. No welts were visibl
t however.
Against the marble white skin {
: the youth tied to the 'post" th
lashes left bright red net work {
fantastic design. small bare spt
in the small of his back, which we
y lhollowed to the f1ageliation an
, escaped the force of the blows, stoc
: out like a tiny white figure in 1el
4. of mottled crimson.
. As Street was led from the "pos'
'. his eyes appeared filed with tear
n But he raised his head defiantly ar
a walked firmly alone, ignoring til
e small crowd of spectators. AS usua
,e and as required by law, the foggir
v today was public, with slight e
r. ception. The warden separated tt
sheep from the goats. He excluded
Philadelphia newspaper reporter. I'll
1T warden said newspapers had mac
lel sensational and fake stories Of IL
Is whippings of fortnight ago.
e Il don't see what business ar
IN newspaper men have coming to Dc
.ol aware and writing this up 1t is OF
IS business and nobody else's,' he sal
rs The warden was wroth and plain
IS