The Cat-O'-Nine-Tails

From Charles Sutton, The New York Tombs: Its Secrets and Its Mysteries, eds. James B. Mix and Samuel A. MacKeever (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874), p. 591.

The lash in use at New York's Auburn Prison in the nineteenth century. "I consider it impossible," said the notorious warden Elam Lynds, "to govern a large prison without a whip."