THE WHIPPING POST LAW.
WIFE-BEATER FLOGGED.
San Feaxcisco, June 10. The "whipping-post" law, passed at the last session of the Legislature, was carried into execution for the first time at Portland (Or.), on June 7, when Charles McGinty, convicted of wife-beating, received 20 lashes, the maximum punishment. The lash was applied by Gaoler Grafton, under the direction of Sheriff Thomas Word, and the supervision of Assistant. County Physician C. C. McOormack. The whip was a braided blaeksnake, made of rawhide, with four lashes. McGinty, .after receiving the sentence in the State Circuit Court, was hustled to the gaol, where he was stripped to the waist, and his manacled hands tied to a door in the gaol corridor high'above- his head., lne beating was as severe as the powerful gaoler was capable of making it. Blood was drawn at the fourth blow from the lashes. McGinty writhed and groaned and strained at the manacles binding his wrists. •When the minishment had bean concluded McGintv was" released, and a few minutes later left the gaol unassisted. McGinty was punished for having repeatedly struck his frail wife, and for having blackened her eyes because she refused to hand over her earnings for him to squander.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12909, 4 July 1905, Page 3
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