| Show FORTUNES mOM WHIPPING WIG Sixty Sit LasheS L hes Started Sted One Nan Man Manto Nanto to t Great Gitt G at Wealth GNew ew York Press There Thero died recently rec nUy In n San Francisco John MagEe one of the te wealthiest resi rosi residents resident dents dent of ot that that city cit of millionaires John immense fortune came originally as a a result of a 0 Hogging ho he received in San Jose Guatemala in 1874 1374 In that year yer Magee Mageo was ws a British consular agent in San Jose HeteU out with with the military ol there one ono Colonel Gonzales Consoles Gonzales threatened and stormed stored but Mage Mage defied him hm Thereupon the colonel took Magee from his consulate ignoring the protection of the British flag fag and ordered him to be flogged fagged for his contu contumacy contumacy macy He got gt sixty sir lashes on his bare back and ad then was wa thrown into prison A British man of war came steaming seaming Into the harbor h of ot San Josa Jose and a wrath ful man was her commander He de demanded mended mande that Magee be delivered over ov r to him immediately under penalty of blow Ing lug the town sky high Magee Mageo was given up up but t that h did not close the incident Unless an l apology for rc the insult l s An to the British flag fag was tv made immediately by the government of a the slag ilag sa an saluted saluted and an indemnity paid to Magee the th British government threatened direful things Guatemala Guatemala appealed to the tae united staLes tal s but this country countr replied that the Monroe doctrine did not protect little Cen Central Central Central American republics in committing such outrages as that perpetrated by Col Cot Colonel COlonel onel and Gonzales and Guatemala was VS advis advia advised ed to comply with the just j British de demands d demands mands Thereupon g eJ the government e i of r Guatemala offered to pay Mageet OO Q for every ever lash he had received The apology were also and forthcoming the salute of the British flag fag Now this thia amount cannot be bo found very Jay a in ie the treasury rca UY of ot a Central Cental American Amerian republic and ad while the government of oJ Guatemala might agree aree to pay pa the te sum sUi the collecting of it i would probably be de delayed deI delayed I ed and attended with wih trouble and ad com corn complications So Magee said to t the Guate Guatemalan malan la government r that he e really could not distress sf eV it fet financially a r lt eba ba by accepting cc such a a large amount of money but would be content to call 1 it square U for r certain concessions l which hf would cost t fl it nothing n hr Magee Mageo got the concessions at once and they included the right to establish establish il a bank in San Jose and tho the building of so oo grateful to him because he had hadnot not insisted on cash that he was wa protected I in itt his monopoly every overy way wa and ad thus he laid the foundation of his lliS enormous for fortune fortune fortune tune S I Another California family now possess posse possessed s std ed td of groat wealth can trace the begin be i ining ning of Its is fortune to an almost similar In the time of the Tat Tal occurrence Tl Ping rebellion Patrick OBrien was vas a mission missionary misson I ary ar in China He was arrested by the governor go of Yeh on a charge i of or corresponding carr with wih the thE rebels and Jd pub publicly I flogged fogged with bamboo rods Then Thea Ten he was put In a cage and exposed to the I I Jeers and insults of the populace Finally Finaly he tie hl was waR allowed to escape to the coast I He Ho thereupon came to this country and laid his case before the tho authorities in Washington This government demanded from China China that to the reverend gentle gentleman gente genteman gentleman man be bo paid paI an Indemnity of 00 Af At After After Atter ter considerable delay and anti much haggling the Chinese Chinee government paid the amount and thus another fortune was started Early in the nineteenth century Robert Jeffery Jeffer was a sailor on board a L British man of war Now Robert RobeTt RobEtt was a hirsty soul and had a weakness for beer ber Cap Captain tain tam W V Lake the commander of the man manof manot manof of ot war had a barrel barel of beer be r on board board which he had resigned to drink himself himsel but Robert slyly tapped the barrel and had a still on for several days do s much to the wonder of the officers iC of the ship hl hec Yd who h could not imagine how v he got o ft It Finally the captain examined his barrel JJ Oi beer and found that hf a large portion of i its is contents was missing He did not I wait wal to o gb through the formality of a but immediately ordered Jeffory to be flogged fogged Jeffery Jeffer took the ther flogging r but threatened to report rort the tho matter to the naval authorities as was wa his legal right S Captain Lakes Lakes anger having cooled he ho perceived that he had gotten himself into a a scrape If I Jeffery reported the the matter the captain was wa in for a a He foolishly determined to make a bad matter matEr worse by getting rid of Jeffery Jefery The ship was then cruising in the West Vest Indies As s soon as Us she was ordered home the captain sailed saie to the uninhabited lal Island laland and ad or of Sombrero one of the small smal outly outlying outlying ing Islands of r the Lesser Antilles Aties and there hETe marooned the thirsty saiLOr Aler undergoing fearful privations on Som Sombrero Sombrero Sombrero brero Jeff cr was rescued by an Amer American icon ican trading vessel which saw his sig signals signals nals nas and was taken to New York From New York he ha worked his way wa back to England and laid his case before the na naval naval naval val authorities His cause was wa taken take up tip by Sir Francis Burdett Burdet father of Baro Earo Baroness ness Captain Lake was made to pay Jeffery Jefery 0 damages and was moreover vcr tried ted by and wag dismissed dl from froni tho service serice The 0 was wasa a nal fortune to the sailor man Jaffery Jafer but it ia ht not recorded T corde that that It grew to any au such giant proportions as the tons of Magee and OBrien OBren I S In 18 William Henry Henr Bather Barber Barber a T London ondon lawyer awyer was convicted of forgery and a sea sen sentence ten tence tencil l tp a along long terra term taz In one of the British i I penal enal settlements While undergoing his his I I sentence he was hogged dogge for tor some trifling f i of ot discipline He never heW bela helt up his head again and though alter after ater four tour years ear of tue crime rimO or watch he had been transported was wa td it was wa but a wreck of the man who re Se returned turned to England to receive te the conrat con rat I of his friends It was the hog flog hogging j i ging that had broken his heart hear JarUa ment meat as a a slight alight compensation for the chastisement to which he had been bee sub subjected subjected subjected voted him 20 Within a few lew months after ater the te Barber case had been ben made public another mao inno innocent cent convict was round lound working In n the chain gang on Norfolk Island He lie was vs a former shopkeeper shopkeeper named Dunne Duane He was wasat vS wasat I at once pardoned but that did not satisfy him ir ur he line had boen been flogged As A a a salve tor for his sore bacK baca the Austra Australian Han Ban cOlonist raised nOO by subscription and presented it 1 t to him Dunne said that tat he never again wanted wante to see England and so s settled agin down as a a sheep farmer farm in Australia He Invested lila Ills hi O so s well wei that when he died twenty years year ago he was possessed of a large fortune fortune nil all I of which he left lef to charity charit chart charita a S There Is no no wealthier family in Russia than the of mine own owners ers era and bankers banker A Hogging flogging togging with the er knout krout krout bestowed upon the thO beautiful and andr andI accomplished actress r Mme Mine idL the I Iton ancestress of the family I laid the lounda foundation n lion tion ton for the immense fortune of her de descendants Mme fell under the displeasure l l of the cruel and Indolent d i Czarina n Eliza Elizabeth f beth the last of ot the direct line lne of the house of Remand Elizabeth Elzabet had ha Mme Mme oJ publicly flogged flogge in the market mark marketplace marketplace t place Then the unhappy ladys tongue Longue was torn out and she was banished to o Si Siberia Siberia Siberia beria tor Elizabeths successor Peter III ILL IL recalled Mme from her banish banishment baish reale ment meat when he ascended the throne and bestowed urn upon her over million dollars donars besides giving her husband enor enormously enormously tS ts sates ates ate ani anzi an mining rights In the then little developed mountain re regions regions regions gions lying bing between and Pass Pas iel ier Among the British peers pers Is Barnaby Fitzpatrick FitpatrIck Lord Castletown The rhe he power and which Lord Castletown s family f have ha e enjoyed for centuries Is due duo almost entirely to the fact that one of or their ancestors was whipping boy to Edward VI In the days dayn when Henry Henr VIII Vl was having having his son Edward educated It i was wab not considered seemly for a a royal royl prince to be flogged Hogged But a prince of the t blood was as likely to need a good whip whipping ping as any other boy so s a whipping boy was provided who took the te casuga castigation tion ton which the prince rince incurred by his nis misdeeds There lived In Ireland at that time a feudal chief who called caled himself himsel Lord of Upper Ossory He had submitted but on only ont ont only ly party t to the British S and was a alto aito altogether rb gether a defiant t and turbulent en ene person e holding t a royal i court in the fastnesses of what is now called cled the te Queens country countr in Ireland His son sn Barnaby Buraby Fitzpatrick had been caught young and was held at the British court young as a sort of hostage for his fathers good behavior Young Barnaby was made whipping boy to Prince Edward and he he completely gained the good will and affection of that tat wi royal youth The might have gone the way of many other Irish IriS chiefs had 1151 it not been for the he favor of Edward Edwad who when he came to the throne be bestowed bestowed bestowed stowed upon Barnaby estates and honors From Barnaby the whipping boy is 18 I directly descended the present Lord Cas Castletown Castletown families arlies of England Two other Englad have a whipping boy on their ther family trees a The Earl o of Dy rt is directly and andt the Earl Te of Lauderdale collaterally de tie descended descended from Will Murray Murry who was whipping boy VII to Charles Charies Char e I when that monarch was Prince of 01 Wales Vales The flog floggings fog floggings gings which Will Murray received for his royal master Wi were richly rewarded for when Charles mater came to the throne he be made the son of the poor Scottish h minister Lord Lordo Lordi rind and Earl of Dysart and nd en endowed Huntingtown n r Ja lf e Will dewed dowed o him liim i nV with valuable estates r Murray had no sorts sons but Charles Charle contin continued continued the honors and estates ette to his daugh daugn daughter her in mar marriage marrage ter and her heirs heIr and gave Lord Lionel a aman aman aman singe first to 10 rage man of ancient descent decent and of a consid considerable considerable and after t his death to erable b property o heh the Duke u of Fu Lauderdale r a the hehe descendants e 1 n Earls of Len Lau Lauderdale of whose brother are now Earl Lu |
