FEAR OF PUNISHMENT
Of* AN AMERICAN EXPERIMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable_Assn.) Beeeived January 4, 11.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, January 2. A Chicago message states that Sheriff Peters was convinced that the spectacle of seeing a man hanged would have a deterrent effect on other criminals, and he made arrangements tor 200 inmates of the local gaol to witness through their ceil windows the execution of Eaffals Burrage, convicted of murder. When Burrage stood on the scaffold prior to the drop every convict witness roared, "When do we eat." They maintained the uproar until the condemned man disappeared. The sheriff, answering critics, asserted that the experiment sought to bring the fear of punishment before the minds of men who were over coddled by well-meaning philanthropists. ______
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14255, 5 January 1920, Page 5
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