Waiting to be lashed

Posted by Abel on 24 Apr 2008 at 08:53 am | Tagged as: Historical Punishments

One little phrase in an item reproduced from a newspaper’s archive really caught my imagination recently. In a story from the start of the last century, of a young criminal “sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment and 10 lashes”, the Salmon Arm Observer commented that:

It is interesting to note that it was necessary to send to the coast for a lash, this being the first time such a thing has been required.

Oh, the anticipation…

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4 Responses to “Waiting to be lashed”

on 24 Apr 2008 at 4:45 pm Mike Ward

And it is interesting to note that they knew that the folk on the coast would have lashes of lashes to spare.

It’s all very tame nowadays. You visit a seaside resort and along the promenade you find kiosks selling ice-creams, plastic buckets with spades, cheap sunglasses, and floppy hats. But in olden days …

on 24 Apr 2008 at 5:06 pm Sarah

I knew I liked living by the seaside for a reason, we have implements to spare…yippee!