FLOGGING A PRISONER.
Richard Milford, alios Woolford, who pleaded guilty at the late session of the Supreme Court to a charge of rape aggravated with violence upon a young girl at Otepbpo, and who was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude and to receive thirty lashes from a “cat,” underwent the last portion of his sentence this morning at ten o’clock within the walls of the gaol. No one was present at the punishment except Dr. Hulme, Provincial surgeon, Mr Watt, in his official capacity of sheriff, the governor (Mr Caldwell), the officials of the gaol, and two representatives of the Press. The “cat,” though wielded by a very strong man, did not cause any rupture of the flesh. After the third stroke, the prisoner made loud appeals for mercy, and at every subsequent stroke his cries could be heard all over the gaol.
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Evening Star, Issue 4094, 10 April 1876, Page 2
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144FLOGGING A PRISONER. Evening Star, Issue 4094, 10 April 1876, Page 2
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