Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-31 | Page 1 | Lash Applied in Public to Backs of Five

LASH APPLIED i PUBLIC 1 BACKS 0F FIVE ; WILMINGTON, Del.. Dec. 30. With the temperature below freezing, 1 five prisoners at the Newcastle county workhouse were stripped to the waist and publicly whipped this afternoon oy j Deputy Warden Leach. Three of the men. Martin Cunning-I Cunning-I ham. white, Jackson Montgomery and : John Lee, negroes, recened five lashes each. They were found guilty of larceny. lar-ceny. Twenty lashes each were given ! Charles Palmer and Lawrence ".alues, 1 negroes. They were accused of break1 Lng into and entering homes. Gaines is to be given more lashes next Saturday as part of his scntenc.' j for 40 lashe? and throe and a haif ears Imprisonment. The others .s- Ceiven jail sentences raiiii"K irnni id months to two years. All of the prisoners, though islbly affected by the old wind Which swept 1 ucross the Jail yard, stood the lashes j on their bucks without making an outcry. The whippings were witnessed by other prisoners and many visitor-.