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Whipping

Whipping image
Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
January
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Delaware has noitentiary. Punishment in that little state speedily follows conviction. The whipping-post and the pillory are used to terrify rogues. Miss Dix tliinks these methods are defectivo and brutalizing - Doubtless this is true. Yet it was but in 1785 that the same punishments were inflicted here. In July of that year, the town of Sandwich paid Wm. Basset 12s