FITTING THE CRIME.

Northern Advocate, 25 April 1921, Page 3

FITTING THE CRIME.

Wit'M'i.»KA'i'Eli LASHED.

There's a Magistrate in Crow]and, Otiiario, Canada, who believes in lilting the punishment to tlio crime. Thus it came about latolv that the lash was* applied to the back of John Ploski after he was found guilty of beating his wipe according to what, he said was i-ie approved liussian fashion. Twenty blows on the bare back and 30 days in pud const itut.nl the sentence, half the lashing to be done before and the rest a', the end of the gaol period. Ploski, klio i.- .1f» years old, threw a clock at hi:-, wife, then kicked her ( and finished th? attack by beating her as she lay helpless on the iloor. His wife feared at first to toll of the various cruelties inflicted by her .husband. She actually tried to -liield liim. Rut enough was related to make the Magistrate realise what had happened, and bit by bit lit coaxed the whole story from her. :Vs he pronounced sentence a low cheer swept around the court-room. The prisoner's defence was that he treated his wife ony as she would have expected

to ob 1 rolled if in Russia. Ho was stoppod in the midst of his excuses, and Warder Frank Gnilingcr, armed witli a new dog whip took him outside and .superintended the lashing.