WHIPPING WOMEN.
UNDER THE LASH IN " VIRtJINIA,; ; ■;;.• ;. At Suffolk two disreputable .women, Carrie Halmer and Lavina ; White, on -April .23, received twenty stripes from a whip wielded by the Chief of Police, John. W. Ames in the City Hall. The women trembled with, pain as the officer laid on the whip with all his strengt-h, but they did not cry out. A curious crowd looked on unmoved. Af teT the' cowihiding the officials ordered the women to leave the town at once with a warning that each would" get fifty stripes upon !her Vack if ' she eyer came back. Tne women : . left town by. .the. first train, declaring they, .woifld never, again set fopt.upon. Su|Folk.soil. ■ ■ Women have. been, congregating at saloons, recently . and have .made themselves ko "obnoxious ,t!hat . complaint was^.mjude to the police. The ' Suffolk .officials .^pride ; thexnsdy.esr on. the town's > morality,. <and Qiey resolved to rid. .tie- place. . of all-.ob-r jeccipnabl^ persops. .I". Afw fined irhe .women had the option .of taking the rawhide and being exiled or of. going to prison. They chose the lash. •
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7119, 7 June 1901, Page 2
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