Show CONVICTS BEG AND CRY FOR MERCY AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE WHIPPING POST WILMINGTON WILMINGTO Del July 6 For For I Gods God's sake stop you are Killing n me mel e Oh Oh spare ne cc spare me Down on his knees at the foot toot of the whipping post Delaware's Delaware's Dela Dela- wares ware's relic of mediaeval form of ot punishment punishment punish punish- ment Adam Ward Yard an year old youth made this frantic appeal today to Warden Varden as the tails o cut frightful welts on on his naked back One II hand and which he had torn free from froni the bindings was extended frantically toward the warden who wielded the whip But as the lash continued to fall faU Ward toward the he spectators gathered Ip in the workhouse stockade to witness the public whipping imploring them to Intercede intercede inter Inter- cede for him Hard looks and a few Daunts were the only answers |