THE "CAT" AT MOUNT EDEN, AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3197, 20 May 1873, Page 3

THE "CAT" AT MOUNT EDEN, AUCKLAND.

The cat with nine tails h#s been applied to the back of a criminal, and its crack echoes from the high-walled enclosure of Mount Eden. But it was a poor pussy; ami her claws were rather too velvety through the blunder—wilful blunder of course—of the deceiving but also deceived performer, Prac tically the cat, as applied on Thursday last, has been no warning to those scoundrels who give themselves up to unbridled indulgence of their passions. Stinson, who suffered, took his tickling, for it was not much more as compared with what flogging usually is and ought to be when it is resorted to. If it is to be a farce, it had better be stopped altogether. The Governor of the Gaol was dissatisfied with the wielding of the cat. The office is certainly not a pleasant one to perform, and something of sba^iefacodnesa

and compunction bad apparently lingered about the executioner, for he was not onlj late in entering an nppmrancc, but an eyewitness tells us that ho slunk in, and as he did ro endeavored to hide In's face with his hands There may have been in his mind a touch of merej-, or might it bo remembrance ? if either, then he was the wrong man ; but the best of it all is that be was rightly dealt with. Captain Eyre refused to pay him his fee, because he had failed to do bis du’y ! so the poor devil had Jus morning’s work for nothing, and slunk out more cbopfallcn than he had entered. It was a fine piece of sarcasm. Ka pai! But next time pussy must scratch Weekly Herald: