Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — An Ingenious Torturer. [ARTICLE]

An Ingenious Torturer.

A teacher in Bristol who was recently forbidden by the school authorities to punish pupils by putting sticks an inch or two long between their ~aws and tying their hands behind them, is said to have since then punished the unruly by sealing their mouths with court plaster, occasion ally sea oned with cayenne pepper.