Foreign News: Canadian Machine

Crown Prosecutor R. B. Graham of Winnipeg advocated " a spanking machine, which would have instruments varying from a broad paddle to a cat-of-nine-tails and so geared as to be administered with different degrees of severity ... to take the place of jail sentences for first offenders under the Criminal Code."

Mr. Graham opined that " such an innovation would materially reduce the crime record."

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