Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-03-01 | Page 1 | Baltimore Jail Whipping Post Used to Punish Wife-Beater

T. t S Baltimore ff Jail il Wll Whipping Post Used tO iJ Punish to-Punish Wife Beater W Convicted Man Gets 20 Lashes on oh Revival of M Maryland d Flogging se Sentences BALTIMORE March 1 UP Sheriff UP-Sheriff Sheriff Joseph C. C Deegan tied Clyde Miller convicted l wife beater beater to toa a black whipping po post t in ii p. p Baltimore city jail today and lashed lashe his back into a mass of red red welts Miller a thin tense figure when when he was bound to the post sagged with every thudding low of the cat caf o 0 nine tails and great sobbing moans burst from his lips during the last dozen of 20 blows ordered by Judge J. J A. A Sayler Mrs Miller who vho had sworn that she would witness the flogging and like At it was refused admittance to toi i 43 f i the jail I IThe if l I The flogging of the the Baltimore B printer was the first time that th the theold theold old whipping post post part part of which dates back to colonial days had days hac been used in seven years Miller was convicted of beating beatin his wife he be himself had bee been Co Continued on Page Pale Two Column Five Whipping Post Penalty Meted Continued from Page o One mauled in a tavern rumpus Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day night He's Hes Uncomfortable Miller was a slight haired dark-haired and uncomfortable looking figure as ashe ashe ashe he stumbled through the barrel barres gates of the cell corridor and stood before the whipping post post post-a a thick square stump six feet tall with arms stretching out on each side so that it resembled a crudely drawn black cross Awkward guards unaccustomed to such punishment began fumbling with the straps at 1104 a a. a m. m Milers Miler's Millers Miller's Mil Mil- ers ler's knobby arms stretched out along the wooden crosspieces The baggy knees of o-f his blue denim jeans trembled against the side of ot the post Straps were clasped over his wrists which were bandaged bandaged- around his waist his knees and andover andover andover over each ankle Back Is White Miller drew a long breath and leaned back heavily against the post his back a glistening white spot pot in inthe inthe inthe the gloomy shadows of the three- three story-high story corridor There was another two minutes of silence before Deegan a foot 6 inch 2 man weighing 23 pounds arrived He Ho might have been going to a a. business conference except that he carried the tails o in his hand He walked swiftly past the official official em- em cial witnesses and newspaper men about 60 in all and all and stood beside the whipping post An aid pulled the whip out straight until the three foot wooden wood wood- en stock with Its nine two-foot-long two leather straps was pressed softly against Millers Miller's back Streak Shows Deegan swung The heavy strands thudded so softly against the prisoners prisoners prisoner's prisoners prisoner's pris pris- oner's back that it seemed he hardly hardly hardy hard hard- ly y had been touched But when the leather felt fell away there was a dark streak across Millers Miller's back The 20 lashes required only two minutes But at the end Miller was slumped against the post and his groans had faded to an almost inaudible in inaudible inaudible in- in audible sobbing When he was freed reed by guards he was able to walk and with faltering steps he went back to the cell block to serve out a six-month six jail sen sen- tence