Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-24 | Page 36 | Clegg Urges Whipping for Wife Beaters

j j I I 5 I L Clegg Urges es W Whipping hipping for Wife ife Beaters Justice Scores Offender Who Attacked His Wife While Drunk C T REG RET th that t we have luwe not In Utah 1 I laws such as some Borne states have a public whipping post pot for tor such offenders of- of oC 1 fenders as you OU said Brigham Clegg Justice ustice of oC the peace in sentencing Robert Robort Rob Rob- ort ert Walsh pf of Sandy SantU to six months in the count county Jail for tor wife beating beating- SI Six months in Jail jaB is 18 the most I r can give you OU said the magistrate I wish it were more for the tho punishment should fit tit tho the crime You should be made to suffer as you rou havo made this poor woman oman suffer and no Jail or prison pris pris- on sentence will do that Another objection is that while you are 16 In n Jail you ou will not be providing for tor her She will havo have to depond on tho the charity of ot friends and neighbors No doubt the they will provide for lor her better bet bet- ter than you have havo done but still in all justice you OU should bo be made to support her ber and you Ott should receive a dose lose of ot your OUr own m medicine On the witness stand you have added perjury to your other offenses and I wish I could punish you for that After court had adjourned the magis magis- declared that he will advocate before belore tho the coming session of ot tho the Logic Legis lature a bill providing providing- public whippings for beaters of ot worn women on and helpless chill chil dren Prison sentences hold no terrors for tor that class of ot offenders he sal said Their Theft sensibilities are too remote to be affected by them The only cure is to inflict physical pain on them In a case like tho the one this morning a severe beating would be the proper punishment punish punish- men meat ment t Walsh was arrested on complaint of his wife wire who ho appeared In Incourt court court with her face horribly bruised and battered She Rho said her husband had returned to their home drunk nn and beaten her To escape further punishment sho she said Maid she was forced to flee lee in her night ht clothes clothe barefooted through h the tho snow to the home ot of a n. neighbor Neighbors of oC tho the Wa hs corroborated her story Walsh said he never had struck hor her but had carried her from ono one room to another That her Ih r face might have hae struck the door Jamb as they passed from one room to another waa was his explanation for tho the condition of or his hia wife's face lace It was on account of oC his stor story that the magistrate openly accused him of or per- per jury