Buffalo, N.Y., March 10—The whipping post as a restraining influence on wife beaters is favored by the probation officers of this city. Their opinion was expressed during the hearing recently of an exceptionally brutal case. Serious cases of wife beating in which the woman carried the marks for days or weeks average about 50 a year in this city, and there are frequent “repeaters.”
“Flogging is the only remedy for these brutes,” says William T. Glavin, chief probation officer. “The lash is being used in Delaware and Canada, and I would like to see it adopted in New York.”
Bad whiskey figured in most recent cases of wife beating, the court records show.
From the front page of the Salisbury Evening Post, Saturday, March 10, 1923
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