INFLUENCE OF FLOGGING ON REFRACTORY PRISONERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 296, 5 April 1877, Page 4

INFLUENCE OF FLOGGING ON REFRACTORY PRISONERS.

■so a recent ; , says:— »£gin2 D.riperience in here were a en who had »n the army hed.- They » it were by te Governor ini and hi* rtnless their vd to. S*» d them, and The urat scribed as, •test htackDr. Mouatt asked if it ■ait," he re>y tnyself." are a great ; authorities in ww piTMju« r <-<«=»« ■" "**v «■■* argument, and that I mast apply to your hack." ** Have you the power V* heasked. ** Why ~ /do yo« doubt it V replied Dr. Mouatt. ■ "Because in the article* of w«r, fc abolished, and I aru a soldier," aaid the ■i are no longer under law was then read to i were given him for end of the time the titl, and said, " Sir, 1 t of Hogging had been ford, who had had to ;-twenty years with «,«««»....- jtfordshire iron mines, •aid that such men could not he managed without corporal puntsbment, though he resorted to it as rarely as possible, and hod it administered in preserver of all the prisoners, and its reason explained. Some year* ago he had a young man in prison for two years for robbing a fettow-work-man> and nearly killing him wit It a pickaxe. Ono morning the man seemed perfectly mad, broke everything in hi* cell, tore up Ms clothes, and threatened to kill the first man who enter jd. Major Fntford went to the man, told him he would be Hogged, and ordered him to pick up the things he had scattered about. He refused, and nothing would move him. He was fjuietty told that he woald have nothing to eat or drink tttt he obeyed, and was thon locked up. with an injunction from the Major, "Send for me if you •want anything." At the end of 48 boors neaent for Major Futford, and aaid, " I'm that clemmed, I can't stand it." "Pick tt» the things," was the reply, and the fellow obeyed at once. The Hogging was inflicted, and the convict remained two years in the prison without having another bad mark against him. Four or live years after his release, Major Futford met him, working as a navvy in another part ©f the country ; and he at once offered his hand to shake hands. " Then yon don't owe me any grudge for that Hogging f" asked the Major. " Not I," said the navvy ; *'l was a d d fool." Mr. Frederic Hill, now Secretary to the Post Office, who was formerly an Inspector of Prisons, said that on going to Elgin many years ago, he was told by the keeper of a prison that a powerful man had barricaded hintself in his cell. The keeper's notion was to send for a number of men and ft>ree it ; but Mr. Hill ait vised that he should be left without food tilt he himself asktd the warder to enter. It is needless to say that no long time elapsed before; the man was glad to take down his barricades, and ask the warder to go in.