A Cure for Wife—beaters.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 341, 16 June 1894, Page 4

A Cure for Wife—beaters.

oA special cable in the Melbourne Herald under date London, May 15, < gays : '< Apparently not satisfied i with the efficiency of the ordinary barracks or prison scourger, the German , authorities have consented to make ] . trials with a flogging machine, which ( has just been invented The first of , ■ the series of the tests decided upon { '"*■ took place yesterday in one of the pri- , sons of Berlin. A man who had j been sentenced to receive a scourging j was stripped, triced up, and submitted \ to the operation of the machine in the presence of the inventor and of a large number of officials and others. The machine did its work with a vigor and regularity which quite eclipsed »ny known efforts at hand noggin?. But it appears to have beeu rather too Eevere. So horrible a spectacle as seeing a man flayed alive by machinery was more than the most stern officials could stand, and several of tae onlookers, completely overcome by the loathsome sight, fainted away. The ' subject' of the experiment suffered terribly, andhiscnes and groans " were heart-breaking to hear. It is not likely that machine rlogg-inv; w.ll find favor in Germany after jester- ■ day's experience, though the machine is understood to have justified every claim made far it by its inventor." — This useful invention should be adopted by England and her colonies, and applied to the punishment of wife beaters, or other persons found guilty of offences against the person.