Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Boys Publicly floggod for theft. [ARTICLE]

Boys Publicly floggod for theft.

In the town of ..Washington, fifty miles west of St. Louis, three boys, John Divoriik and Gus Sol oangArt were arrested, a few <ury£ago, for pe'it larceny. They were lound guilty but th* parents of the boys pleaded hard lar them, and the Judge finally ordered a nominal fine imposed, provided the families of the boys would publiely flog the boys in the court-house square. The fathers agreed, and on Friday about one thousand persons assembled on the square and bew the fathers flog, the boys soundly. All the schools took a recess and the children were invited to be present and profit by the moral example. The children were marshaled "by their teachers. One of the\culprits stood the drubbing without a murmur, but the yells of the other pair could be heard two blocks away/ ~-