PUNISHED BY WHIPPING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 March 1936, Page 9

PUNISHED BY WHIPPING

During a survey expedition Mr F. K. Pease visited the lonely island of Tristan da Cunha, where lives a simple community. There is no prison: “On the few occasions when a misdemeanour had been committed the punishment was a whipping. The last offender who had been whipped was a man who had been caught stealing store?, and the offender before [him —which was a long time before—was a woman who had tried to kill off her husband by giving him a quantity of rat poison. Incidentally, so toughly constituted are these islanders, that although ythe worn at,u gave the man enough of the poison to kill a dozen ordinary human beings, he suffered only an attack of cramp.”