Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-22
AFTER DEcApiTAT,on.
eaniess Walker Saves the Tlvs. -
some Of His AccompIIees. "

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some Of His Accompliees.
IN the second part OF his interest;po
volume, which treats OF the decapita.
uon Of human beings, DR.. Love savs.
what passes In the head OF = decan,.
.atea human beingp Is there any fact
IN the oftrepeated story that the head
.i'es Tor some moments after II has
been separated from the BODY. and a.
connection with this belief Dr.Lova
quotes terrible story told by M. Petit
gand about an Anamite who was be-
headed by the sword, in 1885, at Sal
gon. sa
The place Of execution was the Plain
% Inc lombs, a vast sandy tract sery-
ing as cemetery 10 the Anamites and
the chinese. Four Anamite pirates.
taken with their arms in their hands
were to be beheaded. The chief OF the
band, man in the prime OF li,e--ener-
getlc, muscular, brave without boast.
ing' and firm to the last, had attracted
my special attention, and | decided To
make my observations on him only.
His head fell down at the distance OF
ABOUT yard and quarter where I
stood. 1t did not roll in the nsua,
way. but stood with the surface Of the
wound resting on tho sand--a position
by which the hemorrhage was reduced
TO minimum. At this moment I was
terror-struck at seeing the eyes Of the
doomed man fixed frankly on my eyes.
Not daring to believe in conscious
manifestation, went quickly to one
side OF the head lying at my feet, and
| found that the eyes followed me.
Ihen returned to my first position;
still the eyes went with me for short
distance. and then quilted me quite
suddenly. The face expressed at that
moment a conscious agony, the agony
OF person in "a state of acute asphyxia.
The mouth opened violently as II to
take in a breath of air, and the head,
thrown of its equilibrium by the mo-
lion, rolled over. This contraction OF
he maxilary muscles was the last sign
Of life. Since the moment Of decapita-
ION from fifteen to twenty seconds had
passed.
DIR. Loye also relates the following
strange story, taker from the archives
Of the Austrian police Office. and relat-
ing to an execution said to have taxer
| place in Vienna in 1880: A well-knowr
| bandit named Schavenburg was caught
| together with four of his associates
and they were all condemned to death
| They were already on their knees
ready to submit to their fate, wher
Schavenburg addressed the Judge. ask
| ing that his four companions might BIZ
ranged in single file in front of him a
a distance of eight feet from eacl
other. ''lf,n he said, latter | am be
headed, get up and walk to the frs
of my comrades, will you pardon himP'
The judge thought he was pretty SAT-
in complying with the request. "Bu
if | walk up to the second, the thir'
and the fourth, will you pardon thos
also?" The judge replied that h
would obtain their pardon from tn
Emperor. The partisan was satisfied
bent his head, received the morta
blow. and his head rolled down; but
to the great surprise of the judge ant
the spectators, the body got up, walke'
alone, passed the first, second. thirt
and fourth of the condemned men an,
fell down. The occurrence was told t.
the Emperor, who pardoned the fou
criminals Pail Mall Gazette.