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In a Boston paper, Aug. 11, 1789, we find the following ludicrous
account of the unfaithfulness of an officer in the duty of whipping
a culprit:--
On Thursday, 11 culprits received the discipline of the
post in this town. The person obtained by the High Sheriff to
inflict the punishment, from sympathetick feeling for his
brother culprits, was very tender in dealing out his strokes,
and not adding weight to them, although repeatedly ordered; the
Sheriff, to his honour, took the whip from his hand, by an
application of it to his shoulders drove him from the stage,
and with the assistance of his Deputies inflicted the
punishment of the law on all the culprits. The citizens who
were assembled, complimented the Sheriff with three cheers for
the manly, determined manner in which he executed his duty.
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In the "Boston Courier," September, 1825, is an account of the
conviction of a common drunkard at the age of 103! It seems hardly
possible that such a case could have occurred, and in New England,
too.
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