The Red Cloud chief., 1882-06-15

his accuscrs. and without being heard In
his wi defense" Anyone can read in
Macaulay the story Of the bloody as<ize
| In tho west, after Monmouth's rebel2~
when men were hanged and qusrtcred
by hundreds. and Jeffreys sentenced
Alice Isle TO be burned alive. the en-
tence being with difficulty committed 10
decapifatiop. Elizabeth Gaunt Was
less fortunate. being burned 10 death 1t
Tyburn in October, 1856. When there
was not evidence enough for Seroggs or
Jcfireys. the crown could always pass a
bill Of attainder and have Parliament
declare A or Il guilty Of high treason.
and therefore be executed, with ex-
| tinction Of his titles and confiscs;ion of
| his properly. William Of Orange made
haste 20 do honor 90 Russell aud Sid
ncy,s memory. yet he Wa TIE last
sovereign 20 employ n bill Of a,;ainder.
Thus he sent Sir John Fenwiek. q
Jacobitc. to the gallows. IL 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 elo IHently in the
Lords. In those days tho prisoner was
hanged for half az 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 Jncobiie rising Of
17s5, Townley and Hatcher were thus
dismembcrcd. their heads being set up
over Temple Bar, where Samuel Rogers.
the banker-poef, 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 /. 1870, 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~angurated in England in 12il, when
William Marisc, the son Of a noblcman,
suffered for piracy. Septembcr2l, 1913.
William Smith O'Brien. convicted Of
high treason, was sentenced to be
hanged, and then beheaded and qua
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-
tboritics by objecting TO have his death
sentence committed 20 transportation, on
the ground that the Queen had no pow
or 10 substitute one penalty for snother.
and il was deemed e~xpcdient 10 pass an
act Of Parliament to remove the doubts
excited us to the legality of the act Of
c~lcmency.
In old times the fact that a true bill
for treason had To- be found by q Grand
jury saved many a noble politician
whose head would have fallen once he
was before the lords. Two witnesses
were needed rs 10 the overt act. and the
prisoner was entitled to a copy of tho
Indictment and the jury panel a certain
time before his a~rraignmcnt. But ac-
cording 10 the act of 1900, where the
overt act is in the nature of a direct at
tempt on the life of the sovereign, the
trial is 10 be conducted i'm the same man.
ner as an ordinary indictment for felo-
ny.-Londoa Special TO Chicago Times.