Show Squire Horsewhips Wife Beater Until He Pleads Reform Realizing that the law did not provide adequate punishment for a man who brutally thrashed his wife whenever the humor seized Justice of the Peace J. C. Hay of on vigorously lashed Albert of the same with a heavy When he had finished the weeping and begging for promised never to strike his wife a frail appeared at the office of Justice Hayden with black and blue bruises and cuts on her head and and said that her body was marked also by blows of her who she declared had beaten her the night It was not an unusual she but she could not stand it any longer and wanted her husband The big-hearted justice sent a constable after declaring he would give him the punishment he When Gey arrived he found the justice waiting with a heavy horsewhip in his off your thundered the get on your There is only one kind of punishment fitting for such brutes as and you are going to get With that he laid on Time and time again the whip descended on Gey's body as he squirmed and writhed and begged for When he jumped up the justice thrust him down again and lashed him once The wife was a complacent witness of the Not until he was out of breath did the justice and then he sent Gey home with a warning that if he ever struck his wife again the punishment would |