St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-21

| DduudSc Ilau UteIl pidceu dDOub HIS Ciiu
beer was poured into his mouth and he
was compelled to swallow it until he
| was as full bodied as an ordinary Dutch
burgomaster The idea that the poor
wretch was filled with beer may be
| secuted, unless it were stale and un-
drinkable. Anyway, it was terrible
| punishment for any BritOn who had not
| been Heidelburg student.
| The French method OF executing
| criminals is by means of the gtillotine,
I the invention of a certain DR.. GuillOtine.
| The doctors invention has been made
the subject of painting by Canot,
| pupil of David, who in his masters
studio had become acquainted with
Talma, Danton, Robespierre, Marat
| and Guillotln himself. The picture
represents Guillotin showing the model
| of his death-dealing machine to the con-
Tention, which adopted it in place of be-
| heading by the axe. The first trial was
| given to it on April 25, 1892, when
| dead body was decapitated successfully.
| The guillotine was, however, only the
| Improvement of an earlier death ma
chine in use at Halifax, in Yorkshire,
| England, and called the Yorkshire glib
| bet. 1t was in the form of a guillotine,
and was under the control of the lord of
| the manor Of Wakefield. ''1f fel0n,"
| we are told, "were taken within the
liberty of the borough with cloth or
other commodity of the value of thir-
teen pence hal'-pehny he was after
| three market days from his apprehen-
sion and condemnation to be carried to
| the gibbet and there have his head cut
off from his body"
and Anthony Mitchell were found guilty
| nf
| colts and on the 30th of the month re-
| ceived sentence Ito suffer death by hay
ing their heads severed and cut off from
their bodies at Halifax gibbet," and
they suffered accordingly. These
were the last persons executed
under Halifax gibbet law. The
| original of the gibbet and the guillotine
| is thought to be Roman. for small
| print by Aldegrayer. one of the little
| German masters, in 1858, represents the
| execution of Manlius, the Roman, by
the same instrument. The French
| eXecutioner is styled "Monsieur
| de Paris" who, when his at
| tendants fasten the wretch to the
fatal board of the guillotine, whispers
| in the suaveSt manner, Courage. my
| friend, it will not hurt you much" The
| account in the World of the execution
of Prado by the guiilotine in Paris a
week ago is fresh enough in the minds
| of readers to afford an excuse for not
| going into details of death i'll this
| fashion.
The fate of some regicides is not
| pleasant to contemplate. Respecting the
| death of DamienS, who attempted the
| life of LOUIS Az, of France, an old
chronicler says: Il can scarce guide my
pen to tell you what that insane and
| Wretched mortal endured before as well
| as on the day Of his execution. | will
| pass over the trifiing tortures he was
| put to in private, and come to the
| day of his public sufferings, first desir-
| ing the reader to lay down this paper if
| he be not well prepared to hear related
| the saddest tale of truth that ever pen
or press produced. 1t can be imagined
| that the horrors were something fright
| full, when it is said that even
four wild horses driven to four
contrary points did not free the
| victim from his sutferings. The old
| chrOnicler says of this execution: 1T
| was observed that during the last and
terrifying operation all the mems heads
were turned away from the hOrrid
sight. but all the WOmen's immoyably
| fixed on the criminal. Louis XIV. was
man of perfect good temper, therefore
/ hope and believe the sufferings Of the
assassin arose from the love of his sub
jects, otherwise l would prefer being
the departed shade of Damiens to that
| of king of France"
| And the story of horrors is not yet
| fully described: in fact, much of it
| would be too horrible for peruSal nova
| days. Some popular ancient methods
| of Slaying criminals were the crushing
| of the bones by having spiked roller
dragged over them by horses, or
| by means of sharp spiked har-
rows dragged by spirited steeds.
| the placing of thornS upon the victims
body and then letting huge stone fall
| upon them. A favOrite method prac-
| ticed in India up to recent date was
the employment of elephants as execu-
TONERS. either by trampling the victim
to death or by having the huge creature
do it as gently as possible by pressing
his p0nderous paw upon the head.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has recently
held high carnage of executions in the
street of his capital by looping off the
heads of his people by wholesale, until
powers. In Japan they do the business
in this way: An official asks the culprit
If he is ready. One of the assistants
Sits the dress at the back of the
neck and turns it back over the
shoulders, leaving the neck and upper
portion of the back bare. He then
pours little water OIL the neck, and
then for the only time a shudder passes
over the poor wretcll's flesh. The exc
cutioner then takes the dipper and
pours water along the blade of the
sword, also wetting the linen around
the handle so as TO secure a firm grip.
Then he quietly moves to the left of the
prisoner. who IS mOtiOnless as stone;
two assistants stand in front and two
behind the kneeling form. There is
silence OF death on the crowd. The eX-
ecutiOner measure his victim, lifts the
sword with both hands shoulder high
a lightning stroke given apparently
without effort-a forgotten
thud and the head rolls off. In China
dreadful punishments are Inflicted upon
criminals, but they do not exceed in hOr
ror those of medieval times.
1t is unnecessary to go into further
details, such as the employment of boil
ing oil. the application of the iron boot.
the stranguiation by garotte. the burial
alive in dungeons and hundred other
forms recorded in criminal history. A
very peculiar preliminary to death
sentence that deserves to be put
on record was that in vogue in
Franconia in the fifteenth century,
that is, in the days of the ordeal, in
which Heaven itself was supposed to
take hand in the distribution of JUS
tice. In case woman had been made
to suffer in reputation by man she
was at liberty to challenge him to COM
bat, which took place in the following
way: A regular ring was formed
for spectators and chairs were
placed for the judges. In the middle
of the ring was hole about three feet
deep, in which the man. armed only
with club, had to defend himself
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