Wife-Beater Lashed In Baltimore Jail Baltimore -- Denied Permission to see her husband given 20 lashes as a penalty for wife beating, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller Seemed disappointed as she bought admittance (above) from the steps of the Baltimore Jail. Her eyes still Marked from the beating given her by her husband, Clyde, Mr. Miller announced she would seek a divorce, said "the judge should have given him a hundred lashes." Convicted of robbery with violence in Adelaide, Bruce Knox MacGill, 21, and Christopher Harold *****, 20, were sentenced to four years' and ordered. March 1, 1938. (Photo by ACME).