The times., 1897-08-15

tlernan was commissioned or requested to
furnish the court with d list of the ways
European and other countries dealt with
adulterers. After long research he made
the following report through Mr.. Brady.
1t constituted one of the most interesting
! and instructive incidents of the tiial.
among the Jews by the law OF God
the adulterer and the aduiteress Were both
stoned TO death.
In Greece, Lycurgus decreed thatadultery
should be punished the same as murder.
1.-THE Saxons by their law burned the
adulteress to death, and over her remains
erected gibbet on which the adulterer,
her accomplice, was hanged.
'some of the northern nations of Europe
suspended the adulterer to hook, and left
hin a sharp knife, with which he as com
PEELED to inflict selfpunisbment or ex-
pend his guilty life in protracted torture.
I'm England under Alfred the woman W as
shorn and stripped to the waist, driven
from her husbands home, and in the pres
ence OF all her relatives was scourged from
tything to tything until death ensued; w hilc
the man w as strung up to the nearest tree
I'm F-ance under Louis the Debonair
both parties suffered capital punishment
Constantine Inflicted capital punishment
on each OF the offenders, and Justinian
in his reformation of the codes. left the
same penalty menacing male adilterers.
1.-The Spanish laws deprived the adulterer
of that through which he had violated
the sanctity OF the marriage bed.
IN Portugal both were burned at the
stake.
I'm Poland the adulterer was taken TO
the nearest bridge leading to the market
town in or near where ne resided, and W as
there nailed or hooked to the main bridge
post, knife being at the same time put
INTO his hand To enable him To free himself
by the mutilation OF these parts
In the kingdom of Bohemia the penalty
OF the adulterer was decapitation, and for
the woman meniaI drudgery
1t was shown during this celebrated trial
by Mr.. Stanton, one of Mr.. Brady's asso-
ciates. that up to that time there had never
been in England or the United States one
conviction OF any husband who killed an
adulterer, under whatsoever circumstances
tie homicide was comTaitted.
For time Mr.. SickIes hore himself with
heroic calrness, but on the dayin the open
court that one OF the witnesses mentioned
-'''' - N''i 7'it ne ~ tti
his head shook cCnvulsively and blinded
himself with tears. In that apalliug mo-
ment OF parental asony he touched the
hearts of the jurors deeply As friends led
him from the courtroom every spectator
felt tear in his own eye, or the culver
in his own lip.
The trial lasted for twenty days Then
came the suspense attending the delibera-
ton Of the jury. Finally. seventy minutes
after the case had gone 20 them, the door
of the consultation was opened and
the deputy marshal was heard to say:
Make room for the jury One by one the
ner solemnly took their seats
Next came the clerk voice: "Dnniel E.
Sickles, stand up and look to the Jury" :.
Now again, ''How say YOU, gentlemen,
have you agreed TO your verdict?"
"We have
Clerk : How say you-do you find the
prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty.
Mr Stanton = l now move that Mt SfckIes
be discharged from custody
Judge Crawford The court so orders IL.
great cheer went up from the crowd
conercga ted in the spectators seats. Mr..
siekles bowed his headin acknowledgment.
Then he went forth among free men again.
j. BARTON MILLER.