The colored patriot., 1882-05-11

the rope and threw the Jesuit on his
back. Then the barber immediatelv
tell to work, ripped up his belly, and
laid the flaps of skin on both sides. the
poor gentleman being so present to him
self as to make the sion of the cross
with one hand. During this operation
the writer OF this kneeled at the Jesuit's
head and held it fast between her hands,
His face was covered with thick sweat.
and blood issued from his mouth, ears
and eyes, and his forehead burned with
SO much heat that she could scarce en-
dure her hand upon it. The barber be.
ing still under great cOnsternation''-
but enough.
When Titus Oates Matched the Popish
piot OF 1878, the Infamous Chief-Justice
ocrOggs aided the perjurer most yigOr-
ously. No second witness appearing
when the Jesuit Whitbread was put up.
on trial, ScrOggs discharged the iurv
to enable the Crown to supplement its
evidence, and, on a subsequent occasion,
Whitbread was duly convicted and ex-
ecuted. But Scroggs was outdone by
Jefreys, when Lord William Rus
gel and Algernon Sidney were brought
before him in 1888, on a charge of com
Plicity in the alleged Rye-house plot.
The jury was constituted illegally, and
he was refused the right to challenge,
while not one witness proved the Of
tense charged-conspiring to kill the
King. In Sidneys case, only one wit
ness, the infamous Lord Howard, could
be found, but Jelfreys improved on
Bacon by accepting as the second wit
ness garbled extracts from theoretical
manuscript work on government found
among his papers. Sir Thomas Arm
strong was at the same time hanged.
drawn and quartered, "without trial,
without having been confronted with
his accusers, and without being heard in
his own defense" Anyone can read in
Macaulay the story of the bloody assize
in the west, after Monmouth's rebellion,
when men were hanged and quartered
by hundreds, and Jeffreys sentenced
Alice Lisle to be burned alive, the SEN
tence being with difficulty commuted to
decapitatiOn. Elizabeth Gaunt was
less fortunate, being burned to death at
Tyburn in October, 1856. When there
was not evidence enough for Scroggs or
Jetfreys, the crown could always pass
bill Of attainder and have Parliament
declare A or B guilty of high treason,
and therefore be executed, with ex-
tinctiOn of his titles and cOntiscation of
his property. William of Orange made
haste to do honor to Russell and Sid
ney's memory, yet he was the last
sovereign to employ a bill of attainder.
Thus he sent Sir John Fenwick, a
JacObite, to the gallows, it being hope
less to indict him with one witness to
the overt act. The bill was with diff
Guilty got through Parliament, Lord
Derby opposing it eloquently in the
Lords. In those days the prisoner was
hanged for half an hour; then his heart
and bowels were torn out and burned;
then his body was quartered, and the
four fragments and his head were stuck
upon spikes in different parts Of the
country. After the JacObite rising of
1745, TOwnley and thatcher were thus
dismembered, their heads being set up
over Temple Bar, where Samuel Rogers,
the banker-pOet, remembered seeing
them. They rotted away about the time
Of our Declaration of Independence.
The last persons executed in England
for high treason were Arthur Thistle
wood and his four companions, hanged
at the Old Bailey, May |. 1920, for the
famous Cato street conspiracy TO maSsa-
ere the Ministers at dinner and carry of
the heads of Castlereagh and Sidmouth
as special trophies in bags prepared for
the purpose. They were the last pris-
oners confined in the tower. and the last
beheaded after death. BY the way,
hanging, drawing and quartering was
in England in l24l, when
William Marise, the son of noblcman,
suffered for piracy. September21, 1S4S, /
William Smith O'Brien, convicted of |
high treason, was sentenced to be /
hanged, and then beheaded and quar- /
tered. A similar sentence had been /
passed on John Francis, in June, 1912. /
for the attempted murder of the Queen. |
Mr.. O'Brien rather nonpluSed the au
thorities by objecting to have his death
sentence committed to transportation, on
the ground that the Queen had no pow |
er to substitute one penalty for another, /
and it was deemed eXpedient to pass an
act Of Parliament to remove the doubts \
excited as to the legality Of the act of .
clemency.
Ill Oll lllllcS TIC IdCt lildI Il Il uC OAlA
for treason had to be found by n Grand .
Jury saved many n noble politician
whose head would have fallen once he .
was before the lords. Two witnesses \
were needed as to the overt act, and the .
prisoner was entitled TO n copy of the .
Indictment and the jury panel certain
time before his arraignment. But ac-
cordng TO the act Of 1900, where the .
overt act is in the nature of direct at
tempt on the life of the sovereign, the .
trial is 10 be conducted in the same man .
ner as an ordinary indictment for felo-
ny.-L0ndon Special TO Chicago Times .
The other day pompous little fel-
low at a dinner-table was boaSting of the
great men with whom he was on intimate
terms. He was in constant correspond I
ence with Bret Harte. had lunched
with Tennyson, was in friendly relations
with the Prince of Wales. and. in short,
knew everything and everybody. AT
length quiet individual at the other
end of the room broke in on the conver-
sation with the question: My dear
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