Show VICTIM OF OWN HANDIWORK How Maker of Boston Stocks Came Camo t to toBe toBe Be First to Undergo tho the Punishment When Boston was a little Puritan village the favorite mode of punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment for tor small misdemeanors was to place glace the culprit In the stocks By a curious chance the first person to beso bo be boso boso so punished after the stocks were constructed constructed con con- l was was the tho carpenter who made mado them The record relates that Edward Edward Edward Ed ward Palm Palmer r for tor his extortion taking takIng taking tak tak- ing 1 pound 11 shillings 7 pence tot for forthe the plank and woodwork of ot Boston stocks Is fined 5 pounds and censured to be set an hour In n the stocks They Y dealt In strange punitive measures measures measures meas meas- ures In those days dRYS It was vas the pra tice In the case of persons guilty Of f of the time tongue In and scolding either to gay gag ga the o of offender or- or fender or set him more him more frequently her her In In a stool ducking-stool to be he dipped three times In some convenient pond vond Another r measure was to place the guilty guilt party's tongue In a cleft stick sUck and In this manner to stand him up t to the ridicule of the public t c |