BOTH FLOGGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 5

BOTH FLOGGED.

JEWEL PLOT LEADERS.! i EXAMINED BY DOCTOR. j. WILL ALWAYS BEAR WEALS. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LOXDOX, March 2. Robert Paul Harley. 26-year-okl May- , fair man. ringleader of the £13.000 West Knd hotel jewel plot, when M. Ktienne jßellenger, a jeweller, was attacked, and I David Wiliner. 24, an accomplice, took; i their full flogging at Wormwood Scrubs 1 —without a whimper. Harley received 20 strokes of the "cat," Wilmer 15. The two men will remain at Wormwood Scrubs till they go to a convict prison to serve their penal terms. It was shortly after 9 a.m. that they were escorted by warders from their cell* to a shed near the carpenter's workshop, where their confederate Lonsdale was at work. The First Hint. This was their first intimation that the flogging was to be carried out. Each was examined by the doctor, who decided that they were fit to take their punishment. Present at the flogging was the governor of the prison and other officials, in addition to the doctor. After sentence Harley was tended by the doctor, then taken to the prison hospital, where collodion was applied to the weals he will bear for the rest of his life. Shortly after, he was back in hie cell, where he had dinner anC was later allowed to rest. Wilmer was treated similarly. Jenkins , Cries. A woman whose husband is serving a term of imprisonment at the Scrubs said, after she had visited him: "My husband, who occupies a cell near Lonsdale. was able to whisper to me that the "Mayfair boys have had the cat. .

'"He also told me that Peter Jenkins the other man convicted for tV.e robbery, was in the prison hospital with some foot trouble. "Jenkins appears to be suffering thej' most. He cries almost day and nigLt. "Lonsdale they call the gentleman of the four. He seeing resigned to hi*-, J work in the carpenter's shop, and is par-;' Itk-ular al*out the appearance of hisi ! prison uniform." Church Protest. A small crowd, mostly women, assembled outside the prison gate* about thej time the Hoggings were to take place,i jbut there wa«« no demonstration. Earlier in the day it had been , announced that Sir Samuel Hoare, .the Home Secretary, had refused to commute the sentences. I A protest against the flogging was al#o issued by a number of Church dignitaries, headed by the Dean of Canterbury (Dr. Hewlett Johnson). "The. world.' , they stated, "cannot be made more moral or more law-abiding by the infliction of torture."