Show MAYOR SANCTIONS FLOGGING Because he bit off off his his mother-in- mother laws law's ear Ray Wiggins of Tan Toy a mining town in Ohio was vas tied to toa a whipping post which had not been used for tor a generation and there I given Iven 21 stinging lashes across his bared ared back I The mayor had given Wiggins his choice of ol going to the penitentiary iary tl y or getting the public flogging The mayor one gathers gat ers was re re- when Wiggins chose the lathing for a mob of ot some OO miners outside the mayors mayor's office was on-as clamoring for the ear chewers blood lood A whipping with with witha a mayors mayor's ap- ap approval approval roval was not mob law the mayor maor reasoned and it looked looted as as if it some- some something something thing ling might happen without his ap- ap approval roval anyway anyon and that might con- con constitute constitute I mob violence The mayor maor has received no few lew back for his decision To Ta many however It t looks perilously like mob vio- vio violence lence with public sanction The misdeed demanded legal trial rial and punishment and no whip whip- whipping whipping ping was In order |