A FBENCH FLOGGING MACHINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1565, 5 October 1886, Page 4

A FBENCH FLOGGING MACHINE.

A savant named Henri Roget, hailing from Lyons, has it is stated, found aneir ÜBe for electricity.' He has a patent to apply it as a substitute for the cat-o-nine-tails in corpora! punishment. The culprit, having undressed, i 8 securely strapped to a steel triangle which is connected with one pole of a powerful battery. The other pole is connected with the whip, which consists of a number of steel wirta 30vere"d"'with a sponge. The whip is dipped befor'e the strike is administered, 8 and' wtiefeyer the wet Wires touch an electric' discharge takes place.' The inventor claims that the chastisement can be made so mild as not to injure a schoolgirl, while, on the other hand, by increasing the power of the battery,, a punishment, can be administered beside which the knout would be mere child's play, and at the same time no injury is inflicted, the disgusting spectacle of a, lacerated back is avoided, and the culprit, instead of having to be sent to the hospital to. have his woundß healed, can be put to work in, five minutes, after the. floggingjis °l?L: ..??• Roget intends pet tioning'Uen. Boulanger, the French Minister of War, to allow his'patent to be used experimentally oil the next soldier sentenced to the cat.' Flogging is not in existence in the French arihy, nor is it likely to be introduced to test the machine. —The. Electric World.