Corpun file 22875
The Argus, Melbourne, 9 March 1892, p.6
The Lash at Pentridge.
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On Monday the public executioner and flagellator, Jones, was
called upon to carry out no fewer than four floggings with the
cat-o'-nine tails and one birching on prisoners undergoing
sentence. The first case was that of the old man John Dunne, who
was recently sentenced at the Bendigo Assizes to 15 years'
imprisonment and two floggings of 15 lashes each, for criminally
assaulting a little child, his step-daughter. This was his first
instalment. The next prisoner dealt with was a middle-aged man
named John Tyrrel, who was also recently sentenced at the Bendigo
Assizes, the offence being a criminal assault upon a child under
nine years of age, and the sentence two years' imprisonment with
one flogging of 15 lashes.
A boy, 16 years of age, received a birching of 25 strokes.
This was the lad who was recently convicted for an indecent
assault upon a child under nine years of age at Kew, the daughter
of a much respected resident of the locality. The lad's name is
Robert Livingstone Waterstone, and his sentence was two months'
imprisonment, with six days' solitary confinement and 25 strokes
from a birch.
James Simpson, a young man of 23, was recently sentenced by
Mr. Nicolson, P.M., at Carlton to six months' imprisonment, and
two floggings of 15 lashes each, for indecent exposure. The
flogging which he received on Monday was the first, and the
second and final instalment will be given in about six weeks
time. The final flogging was given to George Nicholson, a man
about 40 years of age, who was recently tried and convicted at
Port Melbourne for violently assaulting a child under nine years
of age. His sentence was five years, with two floggings of 25
lashes each, the last of which was that received on Monday. This
was one of the most severe floggings ever given at Pentridge, and
the punishment in each case was inflicted with unflinching
severity.
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