Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-08-10

EXECUTIONIN IN BURMAH.
The Cruel Way in Which Royal Fer.
sonages are PutAtQDeath. Il .@%s

EAECUIlON
The Cruel Way in Which Royal Fer.
sonages are PutatoDeath. .4sas..s,
asked my companion whether many
executionsstook place herAgnoNs and heS
replied: sThefe l,nse been none forA
several weeks. because the palace in-s
trigues have kept everybody in author
ity too busy scheming, plosting. ansdip plan=a
ming to allow them to get up public
execution; but not many months ago l
saw a band Of a score or moro men aliiil
women murdered on this sanguinary bill
lock. Some Of the victims had roval
blood in them, and they were not butch,
yourself princess charmingly dressed
in silks and jewels, with flowers inter-
twined in her jet black hair, being
pushed or goaded up this hill The crowd
of spectators clustered in the rice
fields there, or perched upon the roofs
of the houses you see peeping fortlI
among the mango tre cs over against us
en- our extreme right, setup shout. It
is not shout of pity or mercy. 1t is
merely one of holiday excitement..s It.
is like the murmur yousmistt hear once
at Newgate when the felonappeared up
on the scaifOld, or in the Place de Greve
when the victims head was laid on the
block beneath the. gull tine, The, sun
is pouring downits brightestrays, which
appear to concentrate with their great
est brightness on tins hillock. One eX-
ecutioner unbinds the girls raven hair,
throws the pretty flowers away, twists a
her esi head ea 4 vioIenSy I bseT1sff n sass i,
executioner grasps a bamboo bludgeon
with both hands. sOne, Two, Sthreel de
swings it in the sair and down Sh falls
upon that outstretched throat. One,
two, three! and again 1t strikes the poor,
gasping victim on the same place. Tile
body falls lifeless, though still quivering.
The princess is dead. Her body is cast
aside disdanfully.
Then look satastasisaH' thers @gfeHT OF
men hustling a handsome young Bur-
mese iii their mldst-hauling at him,
tugging at him, to getshimtothe. summit
of the mound. ea!so is Of royal blood.
Pride Of race, and that disregard for
death which buoys up your true Bud
dhist rs strongly as does the fatalism of
the WaEabee, preserves cquanimity in
his department. He has flung some
thing away over amonr the crowd. 1t
is only his sheroot. He has done with
it, and long before ,ihe brown urchin
who has picked it up will have blown
the last, ,emberB from it, the spark of life
of its Original owner Will haye joined
elements, and one more Buddhist soul
will have started off on its vast career of
transmigration.p See, he stanGs there
cool and collected, his profile q clear,
dark outline against the unclouded sky.
A high cheek boned eXecutioner seizes
his long black hair in front and pulls
4 ~, va,
his breast. The gsecond exc ectitie rlcr
aS eBs rny hs hands and1h2gS hh2Ss VI eRh ifnaGs fS
bludceon hisses through the air and
falls on the nape of the neck of .he vic
tim. He falls forward oil his face, the
first executioner sill! holding OF
the hair second blow on the back O
the neck, while the man. lies .preH rats,
settles the matter. An experienced
touch on the red and bruised neck tells
the executioner that the vertebra is
broken and that life las fled. Once
more the body is spufnadS aside and
more victims are dragged up the hill
But these latter are only common vic.
tins and are killed in common way
! venture ios:Kk SraYfs.ieni what be
calls common killing. lie explains: SAC.
cording ItoIte Burmese l,w roNal. blood
must not be- shed. I'his" iniu1ctionS il
literally obeyed, for whic the womer
are dubbed across the throat and the
men across the neGk, ge sipod is spilt
The common peope lnsy bs execdte ail
any way. On the moflnnSE OF which
speak the common people were hacked
by a Burmese, with a short sword unit
their heads rolled of. Sacrc! it was i
terrible spectacle. but ! sar ne 6sismS q!
horror among the spectators. EHeqp
tons in Independent Hurnah arc tot
common, and have been for centuries, tt
excite muct, public feeling Every man
woman, and chilth lsayss tliat their. turi
may come next, ihSt4is they happen I!
encounter THE thsl JrAs lEe id someshigl
official. Come. let us be moving onward
or.these vultures Viii think we bav
come here to provide them with feast
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