Show TEN LASHES AT A POST dover del slay 16 for stealing fifty one pounds of chicken two white banners 0 kent county james A powell and thomas G smith will receive ten lashes each at me whipping post ia tha bowell brot to his wife telling her to come to dover and bring the children there is much speculation as to the mans purpose whether he desires his children to witness his disgrace or whether their presence would bo an appeal for leniency on the part of sheriff melvin in that connection it is recalled that some years ago a lilford man sentenced to be hanged for murder received a visit from his wife the night before his execution As she departed the woman asked her condemned husband I 1 better bring the children the prisoner said bring the children are you crazy well I 1 declare returned his wife just like you always seeking to deprive the children of any pleasure |