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Memorial Against Flogging (S678a: 1909)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Notice/N of a public memorial signed by many, including Wallace, asking that the flogging of prisoners be abolished in the United Kingdom. Printed on page 4 of the 27 October 1909 issue of The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. To link directly with this page, connect with: http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S678A.htm
A memorial has been presented by the Criminal Law and Prison Reform Committee of the Humanitarian League to the Prime Minister submitting that the time has come when the punishment of adult offenders by flogging might be abolished with safety and advantage in all portions of the United Kingdom. Among the signatories to the memorial are Mr. William Archer, Mr. Whiting, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, Mr. Tighe Hopkins, Canon Barnett, Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, Rev. John Clifford, the Dean of Durham, Sir J. Crichton-Browne, M.D., Sir W. J. Collins, M.D., M.P., Sir Walter Foster, M.D., M.P. Sir John T. Brunner, M.P., Arthur Henderson, M.P., Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, Sir William Wedderburn, His Honor Judge Willis, Sir John Gorst, Lord Sutherland Gower, Edward Carpenter, Dr. Havelock Ellis, Rev. W. Douglas Morrison, Robert Blatchford, Henry Broadhurst, Walter Crane, D. Thomas Baty and Mrs. Mona Caird.
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