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Show WHIPPING POST IN DELAWARE Relic of Dark Ages Put in Operation, Four Negroes Being Whipped. Wilmington, Dela. At Newcastle county workhouse, on Saturday, four negroes felt the sting of the Delaware whipping post law. Those whipped were Warner Lewis, convicted of larceny lar-ceny and sentenced to one year in prison and twenty lashes; Leonard Barrett, highway robbery, ten years and forty lashes, and John Richardson Richard-son and Horace Archie, highway robbery, rob-bery, ten years and forty lashes each. Only by occasional flinching did til victims give evidence of physical suf-feiing. suf-feiing. This total of 140 lashes was the largest imposed at the whipping post in this country for many years. The tendency of recently enacted laws has been to permit more discretion in the courts in respect lo imposing corporal punishment. |