Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-26


marked on the brow, that their lips
should be burned, and their tongue
pierced with red-hotiron. For this pun
ishment he invented round-shaped
iron, which the executioner applied to
the lips of the culprit after heating it.
Louis XII, the "father of the peo-
ple," enacted that whoever uttered eight
blasphemies should have his tongue
torn out /; and Louis XIV. re-established
the law.
Among the Huguenots burned alive
on Jan. 81, 1885, in the presence of the
King, WIS a man named Antoine Pole.
whose tongue was pierced and attached
to his cheek with an iron pin. The in
Fiction usually took place before a
church.
The ampUtation of the ear was O com:
mon punishment in the Middle Ages. It
was practiced on the serf who displeased
his master. Sauval gives the following
account Of it: "The amputation of one
ear was inflicted on dishonest servants
and cut-purses; second offense cost
them the other ear death was the pen
atty of the third offense. When the first
larceny was considerable it was the left
ear which was cropped"
The teeth were also within reach of
the executiOner. It was the won't to pull
the teeth of Jews to make them give up
their money; and Louis XII, after the
death of Jacques dArmagnac, whom he
caused to be skinned alive, ordered that
his children should be taken to the Bas-
tile and have their teeth extracted.
Amputation of the feet was common as
we'll as the hands. They were simply
chopped off with sword or ak, and the
stump plunged in boiling oil or cauter-
lied with an iron. These punishments
were frequently inflicted on women.
Pouring boiling oil on the feet was a
common form of torture. Death was
caused by pouring boiling oil into the
ears, the nostrils and the throat. Molten
lead was applied to the same purpose.
One executioner received liberal re-
ward for lnventlng crescent-shaped
knife, by means of which criminals
heart might be ripped out so rapidly
that he had not time to die under the
operation.
Gases were common in which the
victim had his lips Topped off one
by one, and being ripped open and dis
emboweled before the death stroke was
given.
1t would take volume to enumerate
the fortunes the devilish ingenuity of
man was father to in those CHASTITY
times. The Parliament of Paris applied
only two kinds-water and the boot.
In Brittany the sufferer was tied to an
iron chair and his legs brought by de-
grees in contact with the fire. At Be-
sancon the horse, which consisted in
mounting the victim Oh log garnished
with spikes, was in use. Estrapade
prevailed al Orleans. At Rouen the
thumb, fingers and legs we're crushed.
The boot was an instrument consist
ing Of four planks pierced with holes,
through which ropes were passed to
hold them together. Between the two
innermost planks the victims leg was
fitted. The executioner then drove
wedges between the outer ones. Ordi-
nary torture included four wedges, but
on extra occasions eight wedges were
used. At any rate, the leg was reduced
to a pulp Of riven flesh and muscle and
splintered bone.
Torture by water consisted in seating
the culprit on stone stool after his SEN
tencc had been read to him. His wrists
were attached behind his back to two
iron rings distant from each other. All
the cords then entwined round his limbs
and body were then pulled as much as
possible, and when the body of the suf-
ferer could not be stretched any more q
trestle was placed under his back. The
QUESTIONABLE held horn in one hand
and with the other he poured water in
and obliged the criminal to swallow four
pints III question ordinaire and eight
pints in question extraordinaire. Death
was commonly the result of this tor
ment.
Torture comprised several graduated
torments inflicted upon a prisoner, either
to compel him to confess, his crime or to
obtain the names of his accomplices.
While he was subjected to these suffer-
ings, a Judge, standing close to the tort
urer or QUESTIONABLE, called upon the
accused to state the truth, and wrote
down his declarations, whence the name
OF question which was given to this tort
ure. Question was of two sorts, either
definite or preliminary. These two cate
gories were subdivided into question Or
dinaire and extraordinaire. Through
the first it was sought to exact from the
accused the confession of his guilt
through the accused it was endeavored
to discover the accomphces who had
helped him in the preparation of his
crime. Torment carried to q certain
limit constituted question ordinaire; it
was doubled III question extraordinaire,
which. as a rule. was only inflicted upon
cuiprits previously sentenced to death.
Yet there are people who regret the
"good old times. paper.
Dainty Jewel Work.
They used to do some very dainty
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