A GAROTTER WHIPPED

Temuka Leader, Issue 9419, 17 June 1882, Page 1

A GAROTTER WHIPPED

Kelly, the garotter, sentenced to ten strokes of the birch rod at the last session in Dublin by the recorder, for garotting an old gentleman, has received his punishment. The Dublin Freeman says;— The service of a stalwart man was procured for a small sum to administer the punishment, no prison official having applied for the objectionable job. Kelly having been stripped, heavy weights were attached to his feet, and he was placed in a slanting position, so that that portion of bis body which. it was necessary to get at -was easily flayed with the birch rod. This rod was of a very formidable character, and might be compared to canes twisted lightly together. Few persons,excepting those in authority or on business, witnessed the “ performance.' 1 The weights attached to his feet -were on the ground, so that it was impossible for the young man garotter to kick, while his wrists were held by warders, The doctor to the Richmond Prison was in attendance. The strokes were administered a few inches below the spine, not, us was the custom in the army, across the shoulders, back, and sides. The strokes were inflicted with great strength, and after the first couple or so blcod began to ooze. Kelly screamed and shouted in a most violent manner. Ha endeavored to wrench his wrists from the warders, while with his head, which was also in “custody,” he tried the “ butting system.” The weights, however, bound him hard and ,fast. The whipping occupied about 10 or 15 minutes, and there was no doubt that the whipper, judged by the impressive zeal with which ho performed his task had little sympathy with the offence which Kelly thus expiated. The prisoner was not much marked, but it is not bard to believe that he will remember for a considerable time the severe flagellation.