Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-03-29 | Page 8 | Judge Longs for Whipping-Post

JUDGE LONGS WHIPPINGPOST Lashes Would Fit the Case of WifcyBeater T S Smithen is the Sentiment of Timmony It is a pity that there Is not a whipping post in this city as there Is In Delaware If there were you would surely get the bonclH oC fifty lashes besides biilnjj sent to Jail remarked Judge Timmony to T S Smithen yesterday yes-terday just prior to fining him SO and sending him up for 100 days Smithen had been convicted of having cruelly beaten his wife Ho made a pitiful appeal ap-peal to the Judge before sentence was oronounced and 5t was calculated to move a heart of stone but It fell upon deaf ears Mrs Smithen Is a very slight young woman whIle thin defendant is a husky follow oC six feet Site told of a life that would make any man boll with race how she had been compelled to support herself while he was away and then got nothing but kicks and cuffs for her pains how the other evening he had come home under time Influence of liquor and had not only struck her in the face felling her to the fioor but had also kicked her savagely sav-agely when she was down Randolph said that this was not the only Into that the fellow had been Kullly of the same or similar crimes toward the helpless little woman and that he had saved himself from arrest at least twice by making the same plea to the ollicers that he had JiiGt made to the Judge that he had driven her nut of the house cut up her clothing that she had earned by hard work and tried to do all he could to hold her up to the ridicule of the neighbors Six months Is the full limit with mo in such cases xald the Judge lafxr or he would have been given more