A FRENCH FLOGGING MACHINE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1354, 29 September 1886, Page 3

A FRENCH FLOGGING MACHINE.

A savant named Henri Poget, hniiog from Lyons, hss It is itvrd, found a new 088 for electricity. Hehisa patent t ap ly it as a substitute for the cat- -’ nine-iads in corp ral punishment. The culp it, havin g undressed, is securely etraj pad to a steel triangle which is connected w th one pole of a pi warful batterj. The other pole is connected with the whip, which consists cf a number of steel wires covered with ft sponge. This whip is dipped in water before the stroke is administered, and wherever the wet wires tench an elec'.r c dlsch rga takes plate. The inventor claims >hat ihe chaatl emei t can be made so mild as not t> i‘ jura a schoolgirl, while, on the other h nd. ty increasing the p>wer cf tho ba>'erv, a punishment can be admmia'erid b -oda which tho knout would be mere c i o’a play, and at tho sain** tims no u jury i* inflicted, the disgusting spectacle of a Ucerated back is avoided, and the cal—prit, instead"of having to be sent to the hospital to have his wounds healed, c n lie put to work in five minutes after tl a flogging is over. M. Kovet intends pi t - 1 oning Gen Boulanger, theFre ch Minister of War, to allow his patent to be used experimental y on tie next soldier sentenced to the Flogging is m t iri existence in the French army, nor is it likely to be Introduc'd to test the machine, —The Electric World