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Show Wt Treatment fop Highwaymen. ; . Manitoba haathe right idea for the treatment of highwaymen and hold-ups. A. dispatch from-Winnipeg yesterday announce that - two highwaymen were sentenced to fifteen and ten years, in the penitentiary; peni-tentiary; respectively, and to- receive seventy-flve lashes, for committing robbery by violence. Such a method used here would have a salutary effect en hold-ups who rob and then beat a man, and would probably result in a Budden check to crime. W6: 'dp hot believe in the whipping post in the majority ma-jority of cases, or where crime is the exception that proves the lawt but when hold-ups and'robberies are of almost nightly occurrence, a lesson of this sort meted out to-convicted men would, .without doubt, result in an exodhs of thieves and tough characters that would result in a comparatively crime-free city. . ' ..-.'A ' , .... - . During, the p4sf few. months the Police department depart-ment and the courts have done good work in stopping stop-ping the many hold ups and robberies that were committed, but the city is by no means free even now, there having been several- robberies in the last .ten days ' -; v , . r . If Salt Lake, or Utah, had a law whereby men, convicted "of robbery by violence, could be sentenced sen-tenced to receive a certain number of lashes on the bare back, there would be mueh less work for the Police department. There is a class of men to whom imprisonment for crime means merely a home for a certain number of months, and to these such a law would apply with a force that no sentence,, however long, could ever be expected to have, and a caf-o'-nine-tails would become a much dreaded weapon. ' |