The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-03-03

OF CharOnne. The sentence declared that
| the flesh OF the SOW should be thrown TO
| the dogs, and that the owner of the ami
NAL and his wife should make a pilgrim
age to Notre Dame De Pontoise, where,
being the day OF Pentecost, they should
cry Mercy after which they were to
bring back Il certificate that this had
been complied with.
The execution OF these animals was
public and solemn: sometimes they were
| clothed like men. In 1886 the Judge Of
FaIaise CONDEMNED Il SOW to be mutilated
in the leg and head, and afterward to be
hung, for having torn the face and arm,
and then killing a child. This SOW was
executed in the public square, clothed i'll
Il mans dress. The execution cost ten
SOUS, six deniers touanois, besides 4 new
glove Tor the eXecutiOner.
The charter OF Elenore, composed in
1895, and called carta di lOgu OF Sardl-
MIA, states that the oxen and COWS, wild
or domestic. might be killed legally when
they were taken in the commission OF Il
crime. Asses guilty OF the same conduct
were treated more humaneiy: they were
placed III the same category rs thieves.
The first time that one OF these animals
was found i'll a cultivated field which did
not belong to his master, one OIL his ears
was cut oil. i repetition OF the Offrnse
entaiIed the loss of the other ear. IL
caught ii third time in the prohibited
place. the ass was not hung like other
large animals but was confiscated to the
prince Of the country.
4 pig once having destroyed Il child,
! the image Of st. Pancre was brought out,
and the child, it is related. was restored
to life. The pig was cited to appear IN
the bishops court at Lausanne. 1t was
found guilty of wilIful murder and SEN
fenced to death. Ruchat says that the
eXecutioner was Il pOrk-butcher.
By turning to Il list OF the animals
cited to appear before the courts from
1920 to 1744 may be mentioned the fol-
lowing: Pigs, horses, COWS, bulls, oxen,
canthariees, rats, leeches, domestic fowls,
moles, house-mice, field-mice, chafers,
snails, weevils, grasshoppers, locusts,
dogs, asses, caterpillars, goats, sheep,
mules, pigeons, other birds and worms.
Just one more curious incident in this
strange history. In the year hob Simon
de Baudemont, Lieutenant at Meulan,
.Jhean, Lord of MaintenOn, the Bailiff OF
Nantes and Meulan, signed an attesta-
ton making known the expenses which
Idu Detu Ill OIutI W tAtCute
justice on SOW that had eaten a child 3:
For expenses within the Jail the charge
was six soils. Items, to the executioner
who came from Paris to Menlan, to put
the sentence in execution by the com
mand of our Lord the Bar:f and OF the
Kings Attorney, fifty-four soils. Item,
for carriage that conveyed her to the ex-
ecution, six soils. Item, for ropes to tie
and haul her up, two,sols, eight deiners.
Item, for gloves, twelve deniers; amount
ing in the whole to siXty-nne soils, eight
deniers.' The item for gloves has puz-
lied some persons. Southey suggests
that they were insisted upon by the exc
cutioner as point OF honor, that no
one might reproach him with having
sOiled his hands by performing on such a
subject.
As late as the end OF the seventeenth
century, vast hocks; of pigeons devastat-
ed the grain fields in French Canada; they
were cited to appear. had counsel as
signed them, and We're mathematical.
Of course, the pigeons are migratory
| birds, and they set out on the southern
| march shortly after being cursed
There are several cases similar to all
| the foregoing related in the legal records
OF Great Northumberland Collins in sour
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