FLOGGING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21355, 24 December 1934, Page 11

FLOGGING

TO TBI EDITOa 07 THE PEISS. Sir,—Please permit me to reply to B. E. Baughan about fogging. I quote, "Many of its (the community's) members object." That, may be, but on the other hand, far more do not object, but heartily approve. The purpose of the Mikado, so sublime, was to make the punishment, fit the crime. Does B. E. Baughan pretend to know as much about brutal men as the learned judge? The man committed a horrible crime, and the evidence showed that he knew what he was doing. Such a brute as he can be appealed to only through his ikin. "It degraded its perpetrator." I hardly think so. A man like that is at the bottom of the scale. I remember well a city which was plagued by a highrip gang—lewd fellows of the baser sort who were a terror by night to belated respectable citizens. Robbery with violence was their role. A friend of mine, a wall-known footballer, had to run for his life from these ruffians. As they were caught, each was given a dozen of the cat. The judge persisted until the gang was broken up, and it did not take long. Since then, the said city has had peace. Flogging acted like a charm.—Yours, etc., TIKA. Hanmcr, December 22. 1 Dot.