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The Berkley Horse. Theresa Berkley ran a high-class flagellation brothel at 28 Charlotte Street [1] (which is today's 84–94 Hallam Street). [2] She was a "governess", meaning she specialised in chastisement, whipping, flagellation, and the like. [3]
Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890) American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. [66] In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable in American and English towns. [67]
In the 1870s, courts in the United States overruled the common-law principle that a husband had the right to "physically chastise an errant wife". [21] In the UK, the traditional right of a husband to inflict moderate corporal punishment on his wife in order to keep her "within the bounds of duty" was similarly removed in 1891.
Birching in a women's prison, US (c. 1890) 1839 caricature by George Cruikshank of a school flogging Edmund Bonner punishing a heretic in Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563) It was the most common school and judicial punishment in Europe up to the mid-19th century, when caning gained increasing popularity.
A woman is sitting in a chair exactly under it, with her bosom, belly, and bush exposed: she is manualizing his embolon, whilst Mrs Berkley is birching his posteriors. He continues: [ 2 ] When the new flogging machine was invented, the designer told her it would bring her into notice, and go by her name after her death; and it did cause her to ...
AP . Under this fallen tree the decomposed body of a young girl was found, near Woodbine, Ill., April 26, 1958. The body is thought to be that of Maria Ridulph, 7, who disappeared Dec. 3, 1957 ...
Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it permanent.
The whipping-boss, Walter Higginbotham, was charged with Tabert's murder but acquitted. Florida's then governor Cary Hardee outlawed the use of flogging in the wake of public outrage over the death, and brought an end to the convict lease system in the state.